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I sometimes focus on an interesting app or online service that might help be useful in the classroom.

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Universal Design for Learning is also dear to my heart and I spend some time supporting the curriculum support boys and staff. You may be booked to offer class support to CS especially when a subject runs a Guided Inquiry. You may also be asked to develop "Snack Packs" which are usually a simple information folio of the easiest information you can find for one or two of the boy's topic options so that CS boys can focus on the hardest skill - note making and referencing. I also offer creative suggestions and templates for the presentation of their findings. The CS ladies are saints.

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We are also pushing the need to check our assignments for these design elements. there is an app which walks you through this process. It is useful even when you want to retro fit a research assignment. 21st Century Learning design and app page

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real world problem solving and innocation

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Teacher Collection Application, 21st Century Learning Design App

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Teacher Collection application, 21st Century Learning Design

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Forrest Library aims to run multiple Guided Inquiries mainly for Years 7-9 over any year. We provide as much support as the teacher desires. Check our Portal
Guided Inquiries page. Our GIs use the beDEFINITE steps.

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Generally I try to match IL services to specific curriculum content with invitations and approaches to teachers as soon as their curriculum outlines are available. These guides may appear on the portal and may be available through APA. I sometime throw in a general reminder to specific staff of some of the services and team teaching we would love to be involved in.

eLIBRARY CONNECT:

Teachers can book an eLibrary Connect session for their class where a TL can video conference into the classroom a variety of quick mini-lessons for any of the beDEFINITE steps or general information literacy skills e.g. catalogue use, online databases, online encyclopaedias, advanced Google searches, referencing etc. specific to your immediate needs. They tend to book one of us on Hale Ute and we send them connect instructions. They connect when their class is ready as we’ll be waiting for their prompt.

There are some Adobe tutorials that can give you an overview but Rob Barugh or Toby Trewin, right next door can walk you through. eLIBRARY CONNECT Portal page. These lessons generally fall on me as I have time allocated for them.

Research design support:

Many times if I see an opportunity going missing I will mock up an idea and approach a staff member or APA with my suggestions. Some of our full guided inquiries have resulted from such strong handed tactics. :) Support ideas tend to offer an innovative way to tackle research or presentation of their final products. I have found many teachers very time poor but generally very open to a bit of innovation as long as they have your support. Once you get any interest I usually ask the teacher to come on down and see me as I will try my best to meet their vision for how we could best support the boys' inquiry needs.

Pathfinders:

A more passive way is to create a list of support materials matched to a topic. These sit on the Portal Pathfinders page. I then email a cheery invite to each staff member that may find them useful prompting them to share this link with their boys. Make sure you include the curriculum support staff as many of their boys benefit from the alternative extras I add e.g. audio, podcasts, study notes etc.

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If I have time I create a "New Staff Welcome" outlining some of the help, skills and resources. Include a reminder about the adult fiction collection we have available for their use and perhaps include a link to our holiday reading selection as an indication of the breadth of our commitment to their recreational reading. Ask them to email any suggestions for purchases to APA. I will email you a sample (if IT have allocated an email to you by the time I have left)  which you might like to tweak or just forward to APA in the Week 0 2015. Teachers are notoriously busy so make any alerts very short and very sweet.