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Special Collections. Sarah Dugan Amie Timothy Jones Teresa. Equal Access. The primary goal of the school library media center is to meet the needs of all students in a given school. (Bishop,191). Legality of Equal Access.
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Special Collections Sarah Dugan Amie Timothy Jones Teresa
Equal Access • The primary goal of the school library media center is to meet the needs of all students in a given school. (Bishop,191)
Legality of Equal Access • Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142) • Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA; Public Law 101-336) • Addresses the needs of the child and calls for an individualized education Program (IEP) based on the child’s needs.
Reason for Special Collections • Although each student is unique, he or she may belong to a group sharing characteristics that require special consideration in the collection and can impact circulation policies. ( Bishop,191)
Special Groups • Special Needs students • Gay and Lesbian students • Gifted and Talented students • ESL Students
Gifted and Talented Students Sarah Dugan
Definition of Gifted Students “Children and youth who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields…..” - US Congress (1988)
Did You Know? • http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=799aaa845e1c2e8a762b • These statistics are to make you think about the preparation all our students are receiving not just those considered gifted and talented.
Needs of Gifted and Talented Students • Individualized research projects • Inquiry skills must be developed to enhance individualized research • Tend to gather more information than necessary need to learn to dig deeper. • Technology is where students work and play so there is a need to evaluate media bias
General Considerations • Attention, differentiation and funding has decreased with NCLB • Key to eliminate content material already mastered (avoid boredom) • Students may read on advanced levels and capable of reading adult fiction, but maturity level is still within their age group. • The term gifted can apply to a variety of abilities make sure they are identified!
Considerations for the Library Media Specialists • Research has shown that gifted students have preferences for certain genres- fantasy, science fiction, humor, and series books. (Reis, 2007) • Teach information fluency not just information literacy (Graboyes, 2007)
Resources • Check out www.renzullilearning.com • Takes 30 min and produces profile of strengths, interests and learning styles • Links to 16,000 enrichment activities and research projects that align with the results of the profile. • Teacher resources to provide easy to use differentiation strategies
Resources • Reis, Sally (2007).NO CHILD Left Bored. School Administrator. 64, 22-25. • Graboyes, Alanna (2007).No Gifted Student Left Behind: Building a High School Library Media Center for the Gifted Student. Gifted Child Today. 30, 42- 51. • Wood, Patricia (2008).Reading Instruction with Gifted and Talented Readers" A Series of Unfortunate Events or Sequences of Auspicious Results?. Gifted Child Today. 31, 16-25. • Bishop, Kay (2007). The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices and Information Sources. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing.
“If we think of information as a sea, the job of the librarian in the future will no longer be to provide the water but to navigate the ship.” (Lesk, 1995)