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At ProQuest, we hear from many librarians and teachers who are using the eLibrary BookCart tool in creative and effective ways to promote inquiry-based learning through librarian-teacher collaboration. We want to recognize these leaders in Information Literacy that truly do create a new 21st Century culture of learning in their schools.
This month, ProQuest is pleased to recognize a Canadian teacher-librarian who uses eLibrary Canada and BookCarts to help her achieve the goal of all librarians -- partner with teachers to help them be more effective in raising student achievement in essential literacy skills and in knowledge of academic content.
Diane Gallagher-Hayashi is a teacher-librarian at Stelly's School in the Saanich School District on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. She is also a M.Ed. candidate in School Libraries with the University of Alberta in Edmonton and a contributor to Teacher Librarian magazine.
Here's what Diane had to say about BookCarts:
"As a teacher-librarian, there were two things that I often found frustrating: students getting distracted while researching by all the extraneous "stuff" on the Internet, and teachers who gave research topics without checking to see if we actually had information. I was thrilled to discover the BookCart feature when we started to subscribe to eLibrary Canada. By creating BookCarts, I have found that students spend much more time on-task."
"I have had students thank me on many occasions for creating a BookCart. Also, many of the teaching staff in my school will now email me their topics, knowing that I can create a BookCart in as short as a couple of hours. Teachers are most appreciative because they know their students will always be able to access information easily and they can assign topics for homework knowing that their students can use BookCarts at home. My next goal is to get more teachers using the QuizCart feature."
Diane's work in her school includes more than 100 custom BookCarts created specially to meet the needs of teachers and students in every curriculum area. Many of these have been copied and adapted by ProQuest for our model BookCart collection. You can view, select, copy, and adapt any of these for your Local Carts collection.
Simply click here to learn how to copy BookCarts. To locate Diane's BookCarts, click the ProQuest Carts tab, then select the Canadian BookCarts folder. Thanks, Diane! |
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