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Laura, You will find an extensive list of information literacy and study skills resources for the middle level at my project's website at www.tinyurl/l5xst If you can't access it from work, try from home...sometimes there are issues. Hope this helps. Jim Lerman On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:41 AM, MacArthur, Laura <lmacarthur@ahacademy.com > wrote: > Help, please!! > > I just found out that I'm going to be teaching a fixed schedule "specials" > class for our 7th and 8th graders - my school year starts in a week and a > half, and my plate was already overflowing before this! Not to mention that > I am *so* not a fan of teaching info lit skills this way...but I digress... > > The administration has detailed me to teach an info lit skills course with > a strong dose of computer skills, primarily Microsoft Office and some basic > Web 2.0 tools. Let me say that I am comfortable with teaching those things > within my flexible access schedule, as pieces integrated into the subject > area teachers' units and projects - it's the idea of having to generate a > separate class' worth of curriculum and organized, scaffolded plans in such > a short time that has me reaching for the smelling salts... I do plan on > trying to work with the subject area teachers to correlate what I'll be > teaching into their research and project work, but I just don't know if I'll > be able to arrange that and still have something to work on every week for a > year - actually, I only need a half-year's worth, since this is a "rotation" > class that meets 3 days one week, then two the next, alternating with PE or > another "specials" class. > > So, before I babble myself into a panic attack: on the principle of not > re-inventing the wheel, I turned to my favorite resource, but I haven't been > able to find anything very recent in the LM-NET archives. I know some of > you out there teach classes along these lines, and I would *deeply* > appreciate it if you would be willing to share your experience and > expertise, whether it's about curriculum or class management issues - I know > having these kiddos on a regular basis is going to be different that coming > in as the "special guest teacher" and being enough of a novelty to help hold > their attention, and I know that evaluating for a semester's worth of grades > rather than as part of another teacher's project grade is going to be a > shift, too. Argh...... > > I'll happily post a HIT of any comments/advice, and if anyone is kind > enough to send curriculum documents or the like, I'll compile them to email > to those who are interested. > > Thanks in advance!!! > Laura MacArthur > Media Specialist > American Heritage Academy > Canton, GA > lmacarthur@ahacademy.com > Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message. 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