Re: Elem:Flex vs Scheduled - Discussio n

["Mary H. Kraft" <mkraft.nosc@ASH.PALNI.EDU>]

Please consider flexible schedule for all...all year...all the time.
Do creative cooperative planning with your teachers to develop
information skills units (retrieving, sorting, comparing, evaluating,
using in a project, paper or other product, etc., etc.), along with
thematic cross curricular units. It's wonderful...heady, even! The
kids love it.  So do the teachers, if they ever do it & get used to it!
Even some of the librarians do....;-)

Skills are demand probably are the only skills the kids are going to
remember.  Research on demand puts the responsibility on the children to
find what they need...NOW!  You can watch the excitement, the learning,
the cooperation among kids.  I cannot even remember (and probably have
never known) when such things were "invented," but I do remember a book
I bought ages ago that mentioned it....and the copyright date was 1968!!!!!!
Perhaps it's time...?

This is one of my passions!  One of my favorite areas.  It can work if
the library media specialist believes in it & is an evangelist for it.
The very best of luck to you.

Mary

Mary H. Kraft                           Storyteller
Noblesville, IN 46060                   Library/Media Consultant
mkraft.nosc@ash.palni.edu

"If hard work were all it's cracked up to be, wouldn't Big Business
have kept it for itself?"