Tweens presentation

Tweens presentation

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  Don’t Forget the Middle Tweensat the public library and the school library
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  Keep it TweenFriendly Focus on building a relationship, not controlling. Pam Leo, author of Connection Parenting makes this point: “The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents….” Many times, as school librarian or even as public librarian, we are in loco parentis, so we must think in terms of our parenting skills.
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  Keepin’ it TweenFriendly, cont’d. Focus on praising good behavior, not punishment. Be as honest as possible without being rude.
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  Programs for Tweens •Programs should focus on what THEY like, not what you like. Choices and buy-in are very important • Activities focused on the self, surveys, quizzes—adolescents are building the self. Example: Abbreviated Myers Briggs survey. • SLAM poetry: view video example, read examples and write our own poetry (see next slide for details) • Healthy Snack program: involved local food coop, they brought stuff for a smoothie and had a trivia game about nutrition (use your links to the community) • Getting to know you activities to break the ice and build relationships. Example: Snow Ball Fight. • School environment: multiple intelligences—they find out how they learn best. Assessment of Multiple Intelligences. • BEST OF program.
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  SLAM Poetry Program BooksI Read From or Offered as Inspiration • The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur • Poetry Speaks Who I am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration Independence and Everything Else edited by Elise Paschen with CD of recorded poems • Time You Let Me In, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye Activities: • Show some videos from YouTube of tweens reading their own poetry as inspiration. Search for Middle School poetry SLAM on YouTube.com. • Write an example of your own to share with kids. • If available, record their poetry readings on video or audio recording device.
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  Poetry Presentation forSchool • ..DownloadsPoetry(3).ppt Suitable for grades 6 to 9. • Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me“
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  Survey sent to6th grade classes & Middle School HAWK Hangout Survey • What activity would you like to do this summer at the Mesa Public library during Hawk Hangout (Tuesdays from 2:00 to 4:00pm)? • What is your favorite book you have read recently? • What is your favorite movie you have seen recently? • What is your favorite music right now? • What games would you like to play at Hawk Hangout? • What are your favorite snacks to eat? • If you have ideas or suggestions for Hawk Hangout, please contact Ms. Ellie at eleanor.simons@lacnm.us
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  Survey Responses (reallife examples) • Play games like Apples to Apples, DDR, Just Dance, Twister, UNO, Poker & Duck-Duck Goose • Do crafts like Duct Tape Crafts, Bead Bracelets & coloring extra large Posters • Do digital projects with apps like LaDiDa and Songify • Watch movies like: Holes, Yellow Submarine, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Twilight, etc. • Water Balloon Fight party at the end of summer
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  Keep yourself connected •http://www.teenreads.com/ • Middle School Matters • Social media: Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr Ms. Ellie's pinterest board YS • Good Reads website: look for groups like “Addicted to YA” http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/64233-addicted-to-ya VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) in print and online Blogs by colleagues: http://www.fatgirlreading.com/ Angie Manfredi Public Libraries Online: http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/03/unattended-children-no- easy-answers/ RSS Feed—ListServs, both easy ways to keep up with professional ideas and writings. Ex.: PUBYAC ListServ
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  Orientation for SchoolLibrary • Examples: • Prezi school Library Orientation • Welcome to LAMS Library Media Center
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  Library Lessons • MythologyPowerpoint and Mythology Assignment Children's Literature: Creative Writing powerpoint Folklore as Genre powerpoint Since so many of my lessons depend upon computers being available, I ALWAYS have an emergency plan for if the power goes out. The Quote Box. “Bringing the Mountain” --I take a cart full of attractive fiction books to a classroom and do a book talk for several titles and take my laptop to check books out to students after the book talks.
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  Information is Power— Empoweryour students • Using databases: Funded by state of New Mexico (free to every school) Cengage Databases • Every student who leaves middle school should know what a database is and basically how to use it. (A database is reliable information, a wiki is not.) They should know the difference between these: 1) website 2) database 3) wiki 4) blog • Evaluating information found on the internet (see next slide)
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  Evaluating Websites—Teach students toevaluate their sources • Especially for Middle School Students • Excellent video on YouTube about Using Websites • Lesson Plan for teaching evaluation of websites • Make sure your students know the difference between .org, .com, .net, .edu, .UK, etc. • Middle School Library website • Professionalwebsite evaluation handout.pdf
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  Reading Nonfiction— Teaching theSkills • Offer this to Language Arts teachers, especially before research projects. • Demonstrate effective nonfiction reading on overhead, online or on the interactive whiteboard (SmartBoard) • Go through the techniques—see chart and outline that follow
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  Teaching to ReadNonfiction Reading Nonfiction or Textbooks I. Preview A. Look at title, subtitles & headings 1. gives you a map of what's ahead. B. Look at pictures and tables 1. These give hints about the topic too. II. Get the Gist A. Find the main idea or theme 1. Make notes or highlight text B. Summarize the main points 1. Take notes or draw a mind map. What do you know and what do you need to know? I. CLICK! I know about these things! A. This is your foundation--everything ties to this. II. CLUNK! I don't understand this. A. Resolve: Get more information in order to understand III. Make a record--usually notes or a graphic organizer
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  Resources I useover and over • TeacherTube.com : Free downloadable educational videos • Slideshare.com : Free shared powerpoints • QuestGarden.com : search and find webQuests and/or make your own. Example: Harlem Renaissance Free to search and use, but to make your own, you must have a membership. • Animoto.com : free Educators membership • Prezi.com : really cool presentation app, free educator membership. • Camtasia app: super easy to use way to make screen capture videos—really useful for instruction. See this Review. • Padlet: I use this as a kind of scrapbook for our programs: • Hawk Hangout Summer 2012
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  Insert Creativity •Creativity videowit Naomi Shihab Nye Huge advantage the school Librarian has: We teach, but we do not grade. Like the school counselor—we have an opportunity to be an asset for the students. See 40 developmental assets Get out of YOUR story and into the BIG story.
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  Graduate your tweensto the Teen program • Quote of one of our teen patrons: “I didn’t know who I was ‘till I read this book….” About reading Through to You by Emily Hainsworth. • This is one of our patrons who is now in the Teen program who was a tween program patron.
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  The big picture:Connecting tweens to the world of BOOKS