Pathways to Knowledge and Inquiry Learning
Price: $40.00
ISBN13: 9781563088438
ISBN10: 1563088436
Book code: LU8436
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Paperback
| 155 pages
Publication Date: 04/18/2002
Series: Information Literacy Series
DESCRIPTION
Turn your students into lifelong learners! Pathways to Knowledge(r) is an information process model that teachers and school librarians use with students to help them learn to gather, evaluate, and use information. The Pathways Model follows many of the Information Literacy Standards set forth by AASL and AECT and provides a structure for students to pursue inquiry learning. The five chapters focus on the Pathways Model, inquiry learning, instructional strategies, electronic tools and resources that enable the research process, and strategies for changing the curriculum to a focus on inquiry learning. The appendix includes three thematic units, graphic organizers, and reproducible planning guides. A very useful resource for K-12 educators and school library media specialists!
Focuses on the Pathways Model, inquiry learning, instructional strategies, electronic tools and resources that enable the research process, and strategies for changing the curriculum to a focus on inquiry learning.
REVIEWS
"The authors provide a lucid and useful guide to incorporating inquiry into all subjects across the curriculum and a model that will increase student interest and movtivation."?
"Created by two highly respected and published members of the profession, Pathways offers general and specific tools to meet the challenges of leading the charge to produce an information literate society."?
"[a]n effective resource if a school or district was considering the adoption of a research methodology....Librarians who wish to keep current should consider this required reading. Recommended."?
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pathways to Knowledge
Chapter 2: Inquiry and the Pathways Model
Chapter 3: Getting Started with Pathways
Chapter 4: Pathways and the Tools of Technology
Chapter 5: Change