Practical Steps to the Research Process for High School (Information Literacy Series) - Softcover

Stanley, Deborah B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563087626 ISBN 13: 9781563087622

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 1999

Synopsis

These hands-on lessons for teaching the research process will help you effectively teach information skills, while implementing current national information literacy standards. Stanley offers strategies that connect standards to content area units of study, sharing dozens of successful collaboratively planned and taught research lessons. Detailed learning activities for each of the six research skills demonstrates how this process meets the needs of today's students as well as the requirements of many current educational trends and reforms-technology integration, literacy, critical thinking, collaborative instruction, and adaptations for second language learners as well as learning disabled students. The book includes guidelines for planning and preparing for research, scripted lessons with accompanying instructor directions, application and accountability procedures, and writing and technology extensions.

About this title

About the Author

DEBORAH B. STANLEY is Library Media Teacher, Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, California, and she frequently speaks on the research process.

Reviews

An accessible approach to the "how-to" of doing research, which is broken down into steps that include developing a topic and subtopics, note taking, and sorting notes. Stanley successfully melds theory with practice and addresses real problems faced by library media specialists. She also illustrates how, despite programming constraints, it is possible to get results that will ultimately benefit students in their research. The author correctly asserts that a necessary part of the process is letting teaching staff know what the library media specialist can do for them, thus encouraging more successful student writing and, ultimately, making the teaching process easier. She also notes some effective public-relations techniques to use to this end. The book includes templates and sample lesson plans for three days of instruction leading up to individual hands-on research, rough drafts, and finished creative projects.-Karen Patricia Smith, Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Flushing, NY
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Stanley presents a step-by-step approach to the research process based on her own wealth of experience. Her 15 steps aren't groundbreaking, but they are a refreshing look at research techniques, teacher collaboration, and student learning. She supports her text with an abundance of figures and forms, some of which are so detailed they may overwhelm readers. Ones appearing later in the text, including ones to reproduce as student handouts, are more user-friendly. A repeated outline of the research method and sidebar icons encoding different learning skills and modifications for special student populations help bring the information together. Best of all, Stanley's personal anecdotes assure readers that her information is based on concrete experience acquired from working in a vibrant, successful library media center. Roger Leslie

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563087626
• ISBN 13: 9781563087622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230