Registration deadlines are approaching for University
of Wisconsin-Stout summer online professional
development classes for library media specialists.
NEW – Library Media Specialist e-Portfolios
Check out some of the eportfolios media specialists
developed during recent sessions
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/eportfolios.shtml
and review comments from past participants:
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/issues/comments.html
Earn graduate credits via online courses and meet your
career goals for licensure renewal, advanced
certification, advancement on the salary schedule, and
documentation of professional development.
Advocacy and Emerging Issues for Media Specialists
begins June 13, 2005
Instructor: Mary Alice Anderson
Designed for practicing K-12 school media specialists
to discuss the critical issues facing the school
library media profession and develop practical
strategies for coping with change, becoming a staff
development leader in technology integration and
developing advocacy and outreach programs for the
media center
School Library and Classroom Collaborations
begins June 20, 2005
Instructor: Jo Dervan
Examine ways to make collaboration a success whether
in a fixed or flexible schedule environment and
explore strategies to work effectively with
administrators in creating adaptive schedules from
early primary to high school. Explore ways to support
content area and information literacy standards with
pathfinders and utilize the Big6 information problem
solving model and other best practices for developing
information literacy skills.
Teaching Young Adult Literature (gr.6-12)
begins June 20, 2005
Instructor: Sharron McElmeel
Focus on building an appreciation of literature,
encouraging student reading, developing life-long
readers, and developing activities for critical
thinking and literacy skills across the curriculum.
Discuss the culture of teens, popular fiction,
information books and books cited for literary
qualities.
Teaching Children's Literature (K-5)
begins June 20, 2005
Instructor: Sharron Mcelmeel
Explore the world of today's authors and illustrators
and the best new fiction and information books.
Discuss exciting new ways to integrate children's
literature with curriculum activities.
Additional courses of interest to library media
specialists include topics such as designing and
enhancing your media center website, problem based
learning with WebQuests, using handheld computers
(PDAs) in the media center, digital photography,
creating videos to support your curriculum, and using
Inspiration to teach note-taking, outlining,
organizing and communicating information.
Visit http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/media.shtml
to learn more.
Register online or by fax:
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
For more information contact:
Email: vanderveldej@uwstout.edu
Joan Vandervelde, Online Professional Development
Program Coordinator
Telephone: 715-642-0209
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Josephine Dervan, Library Media Specialist
Strathmore Elementary School
Aberdeen, NJ
rderva@infionline.net
He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
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