Planning for Instructional Partner Teaching Unit
The Media Specialist was being utilized most of the day to teach staff how to navigate Google Docs. Therefore, I spent a majority of the day helping with a variety of tasks with running the media center - mostly helping our parent volunteers and students with their varying needs. In addition, I was able to begin the pre-planning portion of my teaching unit by narrowing the area of focus. Much of what I have completed to date consists of informal observation regarding the way students are conducting research within our media center (Google vs. other search engines and the Gale database). The research habits of the students to date lead me to believe that they are not yet able to efficiently and effectively evaluate online resources outside of the school's database and teacher approved sites. Because state testing has very few questions pertinent to this area of 21st century learning, I intend to gather information by polling the teachers and students using a Google Poll to confirm that this is an area of concern or need. In anticipation that the poll will result in the students not having the skills necessary to efficiently and correctly evaluate such websites, I compiled a list of the standards (using the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action) that need to be addressed within my lesson.
