Portsmouth High School and LEL

1. Go Further! Are You Preparing Your Students to Transition to College and/or Employment? Continued

2. Portsmouth High School and LEL • ACT Test Prep • SAT Test Prep • AP Test Prep • Computer Tutorials • “Teachers, parents and students love that they can work on preparing for college at this one site!” Gayle Hopkins, Librarian

3. STATISTICS “Half of students who enter college in the 21st century will fail to earn a degree” (Carr and Rockman, 2003) “59% of college instructors are dissatisfied with the ability of high school graduates to do research” (http://www.achieve.org/node/548 Owen, Patricia L.  "A Transition Checklist for High School Seniors." School Library Monthly, http://www.infowen.info/checklist.pdf

4. Survey of students….Shawnee State Academic Development Skills Class (mostly college freshman)

5. Tools available to you from INFOhio: The Research Project Calculator is an INFOhio project based on the MINITEX project developed in part by University of Minnesota Libraries

6. Research Project Calculator at PJHS

9. Academic Search Premier

11. Teaching Proper Citation: Tools From INFOhio • Citation Tools: • World Book Citation Builder • EBSCO Student Research Center

12. 5 INFOhio Databases that move to college with your students: • While all the INFOhio – Libraries Connect Ohio databases are still available to your students – there are five that are usually enhanced with added content and are used regularly at the college level: • EBSCOhost • LearningExpress Library • Oxford Reference Online • The ART Collection • Literature Online from Chadwyck-Healey

13. OPAC Knowledge Needed • SirsiDynix online catalog • OhioLINK OPAC • Multiple libraries in colleges • Dewey vs. LC Owen, Patricia L.  "A Transition Checklist for High School Seniors." School Library Monthly, http://www.infowen.info/checklist.pdf

14. Where Do Assignments Fit in Bloom’s Taxonomy? New Bloom’s (verbs) Old Bloom’s (nouns) http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

15. Sometimes It’s Not the Student, It Is the Question You Are Asking • How can countries avoid the kind of bloodshed and devastation we experienced during our Civil War? • Some say our country remains wounded by the slavery experience and the Civil War. In what ways might this claim be true and in what ways untrue? What evidence can you supply to substantiate your case? • Write a report on the Civil War Jamie McKenzie’s Questioning Toolkit, http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

16. HOTS VS. LOTS • Literary criticism • Position papers • Change outcome of historic event • Collaborative science projects with social, political and scientific ramifications • Mock trial • Debates • With Twitter, tweet as if a historic figure • Mock political campaigns and elections Avoiding Death by Presentation , Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/3515471358/

17. Do More Than Satificing (cross between satisfying and sufficing) Joyce Valenza in a letter to her seniors, “I want you to go farther than many of your peers will. I want you to search for quality, relevance, currency and credibility. I want you to find excellence, display excellence and distinguish yourself from other freshmen.” Joyce Valenza. “A Letter to My Seniors,” VOYA, April 2009, http://issuu.com/joycevalenza/docs/voya200904tagteamtech

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