click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
School Lib Praxis
Study questions for Praxis exam
Term | Definition |
---|---|
ALA | American Library Association. Promotes the highest quality library and information services and publications to members and nonmembers |
AECT | Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Provides leadership in the educational technology arena and links professionals holding a common interest in the use and application of educational technology to the learning process |
AASL | American Association of School Librarians |
YALSA | Young Adult Library Services Association. Evaluates and selects books and nonprint materials for young adults (age 12-18) Promotes and strengthens library services for young adult readers. |
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community | Court case about 1st amendment rights of students finding for John F. Tinker saying "do not shed constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate" |
Island Trees v. Pico Union Free | Challenged 9 books: 5 returned to shelves, 2 put on restricted shelves, and 2 removed. Result stated that "local school boards cannot remove books because of dislike" |
Contemporary Learning Theory | Students as active, engaged information users |
Library Power | $40 million national school improvement initiative by the Dewitt-Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Meant to improve teaching and learning through revitalizing elementary and middle school library media programs. |
8 Components of Professional Practice (ALA, AASL) | Knowledgeable teacher, efficient collection builder, proficient information specialist, reflective practitioner & lifelong learner, skilled manager |
Spatial Learning Style | Visualize, day dream, watch movies, stay away from reality, draw pictures, natural artistic ability |
Linguistic Learning Style | Loves to read, write, and tell stories; memorizes places, dates, names, trivia, and tells beautiful stories; repeats back everything you have ever told them word for word |
Logical Learning Style | Mathematically inclined, solving problems, straight-forward learners, building blocks, and puzzles |
Interpersonal Learning Style | Social butterflies; adapt easily to any type of social situation; have many friends and are excellent leaders; patient and understanding |
Intrapersonal Learning Style | Work best alone; deep self-understanding; independent and original; strong, silent type |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge | Terminology, facts, recalling, define, describe, enumerate, label |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension | Grasping meaning, classify, cite, summarize, trace |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Application | Use of previously learned information in new ways, acts, chart, predict |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Analysis | Break down into parts and understand structure |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Synthesis | Bloom's Taxonomy: Synthesis |
Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluation | Judging values |
Web Citations | URL, date last updated, name of person or organization sponsoring the website. |
Quality Website Characteristics | Accurate, current information; appropriate links that function well; ease of navigation |
Reluctant Readers | Expose them to newspapers, magazines, and series books |
Successful Storyteller | Advance preparation, including reading aloud |
Search Strategies | Boolean, truncation, quotation marks, minus & plus signs |
Assessments for Information Literacy | Student and teacher conference; journal entry; rubric; NOT true/false or multiple choice |
Big 6 | 1990 by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz in Syracuse. 1-Task Definition; 2-Information Seeking Strategies; 3-Location and Access; 4-Use of Information; 5-Synthesis; 6-Evaluation |
Pathways to Knowledge | 1995 by Follett, Marjorie Pappas, and Ann Tepe. 1-Appreciation; 2-Presearch to develop overview; 3-Search to identify and select information; 4-Interpretation; 5-Communication and apply information; 6-Evaluation |
Stripling/Pitts | 1-Choose a topic; 2-Get an overview; 3-Narrow topic; 4-Develop thesis statement; 5-Formulate questions; 6-Plan research; 7- Find/Analyze/Evaluate sources; 8-Evaluate evidence; 9-Organize information; 10-Create final product |
Kuhthau Information Literacy Model | 1989 by Carol Kuhthau at Rutgers. 1-Task Initiation; 2-Topic Selection; 3-Prefocus Exploration; 4- Focus Formulation; 5-Information Collection; 6-Search Closure |
NICEM | National Information Center for Educational Media |
ALCTS | Association for Library Collections & Technical Services. .Dedicated to acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of all kinds of library materials; Develop and coordinate country's library resources |
Publisher's Weekly | Book reviews and forthcoming books published by Reed Business Information |
Bildungsroman | Novel in which the author traces the maturation of the hero or Heroine from the subjectivity of childhood and early adolescence through the development of objective self-awareness |
Kirkus Review | Semimonthly review publication covering books for adults, young adults and children |
Vertical File | A collection of loose clippings, pictures, illustrations, pamphlets or other materials of an ephemeral nature that are filed in drawers or in a box |
Descriptive Cataloging | Identifying and describing the physical and bibliographic characteristics of item access points. |
Colophon | Statement at the end of a text of an early manuscript usually giving details of production; expression of gratitude warning of copyright comment |
Resources to acquire books | SLJ; Kirkus; Booklist; Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Horn Book; Publisher's Weekly; NY Times Book Reviews |
Collection Map | A visual supplement to the card catalog that displays the breadth and depth of the LMC's holdings |