HELPING STUDENTS STUDY AND LEARN: A SCHOOL/LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP

What is learning?• Copying and memorizing are not learning

• Students need to learn• How to actively and effectively STUDY• How to FIND information• How to UNDERSTAND information• How to ORGANIZE and REPRESENT learning• HOW TO PLAN the process of doing research

Study Skills: What and HowTime

Management

Regular times

Daily study

Understanding

Note takingLists

PracticeWork

togetherQuestionnin

gDiagrams

and Charts

Test Preparation

Mnemonics

Review notes

Review charts and diagrams

Supporting ComprehensionUse questions

Who, What, Where, When, Why, Which and How

K- What I know alreadyW- What I want to learnL- What I have learned

Answer in your own words

Use graphic organizers

Show main ideas and supporting information

Sequences, processes, compare and contrast, relationships, hierarchies

Graphic Organizers

Workshop training

Library progra

m

Leader

Promoter

Partner

Manager

Region

Wordea 1

Wordea 2

Wordea 3

DistrictRelationship:Roles of Librarian Hierarchy:

Local government

Interrelationships: Components of Training Workshops

Coffee

Milk

Sugar

Macchiato

Process: Making Macchiato

Reference Skills: Where and How to Find Information

Where to find

information

Encyclopaedias,

nonfiction, books,

manuals, atlases, maps

How to find information

Use tools in information resources

Use strategies for

understanding key words

Types of Information Tools in Information Resources

• Table of contents• Headings• Glossary• Index• Charts• Text features (bold, size…)• Visual supports…. Colour, photos, diagrams…• ACTIVITY: With a partner, identify each of these structures in an information book. Then, prepare a “test” for your partner to find specific information using each of these features within an individual information book.

Dictionaries• Many types for different reading abilities and purposes. • Most are complex and difficult to use.• Other strategies to determine of unfamiliar words:• Ask someone• Use definitions and context clues from the text• The female lays a clutch, or group of eggs. • It is herbivorous, which means it is a plant eater.• Some sea turtles migrate almost 1000 miles to breed, nest and lay

their eggs.• Use word part clues -- • “Prehistoric” – pre-= before, - before recorded history• Identify unfamiliar key words before reading and discuss them

with students

Maps, Atlases and Globes• Different forms• Tools for using these references• Matching purpose with the proper resource• New technologies and mapping

Small Group Activity:Maps, Atlases and GlobesYour Task Your AnswerIdentify types of maps

What information does this map provide?

Identify the tools in the map such as colour, direction, legend, markers etc.

Report what you learned from reading the map.

Small Group Activity Two: ExampleYour Task Your AnswerIdentify research topic Canadian Sports

Make a Who, What, Where, When, Why, Which and How question for your topic. Choose one question for the next part of the activity

Who are famous Canadian sports heroes?What are popular Canadian sports?Where do sporting events take place?When do sporting events take place?Why are some sports more popular than others?Which sports are winter and which are summer sports?How do Canadian sports compare with Ethiopian sports?

Identify particular resources that could be used

Online search engines: GoogleInformation books on sports in CanadaLocal newspapersEncyclopedia

Reporting your learning: Identify a graphic/diagram to present your answers to the questions- chart, graph, table, timeline, process map, etc.

Hierarchy, Venn diagram

Sharing the Information•Write report• Give a speech• Make a poster• Drawings/Illustrations• Make a model• Develop a graphic organizer

Sports in Canada

Hockey

Sydney Crosby

Wayne Gretsky

Soccer (football)

David Edgar

?

Water Sports (swimming,

diving)

Alexandre Despatie

Mark Tewksbury

How do Canadian sports compare with Ethiopian sports?

Sports in Canada:• Hockey• Baseball• Water Sports

Sports in Ethiopia• Track- running• Ping-Pong

SoccerFootball

Comparing Canadian Hockey & Ethiopian Running

Canadian children enjoying outdoor hockey

Professional hockey in large indoor rink

Ethiopian Runners win every medal!

Ethiopian children practice their running skills.

Small Group Activity ThreeYour Task Your AnswerIdentify research topic Global Food Situation

Make a Who, What, Where, When, Why, Which, and How question for your topic. Choose one question for the next part of the activity

Identify information needed to research the question

Identify information resources that could be used

Identify a graphic way to present your answers to the question- chart, graph, table, timeline, process map, etc.

ACTIVITY: Creating a Graphic• Group 1: How to make injera (process/sequence)• Group 2: Key times in Ethiopian history (time line)• Group 3: Diagram and label the parts of a tukel (drawing with labels)• Group 4: Compare jobs in the city with jobs in the country (venn diagram, compare-contrast chart)• Group 5: Graph library statistics (e.g., bar graphs, pie charts)• Group 6: Diagram how government is organized in Ethiopia (hierarchy)

Supporting Student Research5. Model

with selected students

1. Form questions and task

2. Identify appropriat

e resources

3. Review resources for needed informatio

n with student

4. Review usefulness

of informatio

n and further needs