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Lesson Plan for Library Orientation for Grades 9-12

The Beacon Academy Library Orientation Plan

Session objectives:

1. To welcome grade 9s to the library;
2. To present ways on how the library supports grade 10 students in the Personal Project;
3. To assess students’ knowledge of the library, citation and skills in locating and accessing information;
4. To discuss possible ways the library can be an avenue for CAS projects and Community Service.

Grade 9 Learning Experience:

1. The Library is…

• Write what you know or your idea of the library in a post-it.
• Post it on the whiteboard.
• TL will read the post-its.

     

      B. The Beacon Academy Library

• Distribute brochure to all students.
• Read the brochure and take note of important words or ideas that struck you.
• Turn to a partner and share your notes and ideas.
• Go back to your notes and your brochure. Think of one word or a phrase to describe the library. Stand up and write them on the cartolina.

      C. BA Library Themes: Empathy, Inclusion and Diversity

• Bulletin Board: Libraries are for everyone! Ang Aklatan ay para sa lahat!
• Reading Guidance Program: READING Without Walls Challenge
• 1. Read a book about a character who doesn’t look like you or live like you.
• 2. Read a book about a topic you don’t know much about.
• 3. Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read for fun. This might be a chapter book, a graphic novel, a book in verse, a picture book, or a hybrid book.

      D. In the library you can…

1. Read and borrow books for academic and leisure reading.
2. Study by yourself or with a group.
3. Learn about Academic Honesty and apply research skills taught in the classroom by your teachers.
4. Develop, build and make stuff for academic work, Personal Projects, IAs, Extended Essays and TOK essays, and CAS Projects.
5. Help grow its collection of books, ebooks, online resources and the like.

      E. Distribute library bookmarks and show online subscriptions, OPAC and BA Library Website.

Grade 10 Learning Experience

1. TL asks the question: How was the library of help or of assistance to you when you were in grade 9? Write your answers on post-its.
2. Students are to discuss their answers in pairs. After 3-5 mins, post-its are put on the whiteboard.
3. TL reads students post-its.

4. How can the BA Library help you in the Personal Project?

1. Search for sources and resources in your research. (OPAC, Online Databases)
2. Learn more about referencing, citations and the annotated bibliography. (Academic Honesty)
3. Apply research skills taught in the classroom by your teachers.
4. Schedule consultation or skills sessions with Mrs. Gagatiga. (per class, group or individual study time)
5. Access and read PP reports and samples. (for room use only)

5. TL introduces theme for the year: Libraries are for everyone! Ang Aklatan ay para sa lahat! Themes for this year is EMPATHY; INCLUSION and DIVERSITY.
6. TL introduces year long Reading Guidance Activity: READING Without Walls Challenge.
7. Show and access online subscriptions, OPAC and BA Library Website.

Grade 11 Learning Experience

1. Students play the BA LIBRARY BINGO.
2. Process the game and answers of students.
3. How can the BA Library help you in your IAs?

1. Search for sources and resources in your research. (OPAC, Online Databases)
2. Learn more about referencing, citations and the annotated bibliography. (Academic Honesty)
3. Apply research skills taught in the classroom by your teachers.
4. Schedule consultation or skills sessions with Mrs. Gagatiga. (per class, group or individual study time)
5. Access and read EE reports and samples. (for room use only)

4. TL introduces theme for the year: Libraries are for everyone! Ang Aklatan ay para sa lahat! Themes for this year is EMPATHY; INCLUSION and DIVERSITY.
5. TL introduces year long Reading Guidance Activity: READING Without Walls Challenge.
6. Show and access online subscriptions, OPAC and BA Library Website.

Grade 12 Learning Experiences

1. Present possible projects and activities for CAS and Community Service.

Context: Reading advocacy and book campaigns 

1. Set-up a pop-up library or library on wheels.
2. Help organize a classroom library for Loma Elementary School.
3. Create and illustrate stories under the Early Readers Project of the Beacon Academy.
4. Schedule a workshop or consultation session with Mrs. Gagatiga on reading aloud and storytelling.
5. Contribute to BA Library Spotlight, Drake Velasco’s website by writing reviews on books, apps, games and arts and culture events. 

        2. TL introduces theme for the year: Libraries are for everyone! Ang Aklatan ay para sa lahat! Themes for this year is EMPATHY; INCLUSION and DIVERSITY.

        3. TL introduces year long Reading Guidance Activity: READING Without Walls Challenge.

PPT: The Beacon Academy Library Orientation Version 2.1

Library Sessions at the Start of the Academic Year 2019-2020

I am preparing for next week's library orientation and research session with our Griffins. The teacher in me is excited to go back to school, officially, and meet new and returning students. Another part of me is missing vacation already. Such is life.

I will be sharing the presentation I use for library orientation next week. While there are common ideas and library concepts I will be discussing, I have prepared specific activities for each grade level. In the Beacon Academy, our small class size affords us a very personal and differentiated approach to instruction. Read this link on Library Orientation 2018 as the activities I put together last year will be used as spring board to this year's session.

What I am excited to work on this year is the Reading Without Walls Program with the Student Council. This has been our reading campaign since 2017. Read about Gene Luen Yang's Reading Without Walls Campaign that we adapted in the Academy. Here is a link to a post about the campaign and how we operationalized the it. Involving student leaders in the campaign may prove to be helpful as the program will be promoted among peers.

Lastly, as I am to meet the grade 9s on Monday, August 5 for our Foundation Week activities, I will be giving an introductory session on research.

Looking through my files, I will also be using worksheets on media and information literacy which I have made and implemented with previous grades 9 and 10 students. Links to the worksheets are here: The Old Bike and Hitler's Ghost.

Keep up and visit the blog this week as I will post how things went during the sessions.

Library Orientation 2018: On Students' Library Experiences

Because our themes for this year are EMPATHY, INCLUSION and DIVERSITY, the library orientation I prepared for my students in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 focused on their library experiences, past, present and the future. 

For grade 9, since they are new students coming in the Academy, I asked them of their ideas and concepts on what a library is. This is an assessment activity as well as a way of connecting what they know to the current library programs and services we have in the Academy. This was followed by the basic library protocols and guidelines. Circulation services, use of the Online Public Access Catalog, points of access when using the library's online databases and essential agreements in the library. These were all introduced to the new students but will be taken up in-depth in the subject and content areas through library sessions.

The grade 10s looked back at their library experiences from grade 9. Since they will be starting the year with their Personal Project (PP), I gave them a session on the use of our online subscriptions and how it can be of value to their research. It is an introductory session too, since the PP Coordinator and I have identified contact points and engagement activities focusing on research in the coming months.

The grade 11s had a Library Bingo that is very similar to a Library Scavenger Hunt. This is to prepare them for the library session scheduled for them during Foundation Week (more on that in a separate blog). Closing the morning run of orientations, I presented the Reading Without Walls campaign to the grade 12s as well as possible library projects where they can participate in earning them Community, Action and Services hours.

The grade12s will soon leave the Academy to pursue their academic careers. Out there, they will experience libraries that are embedded in the system of community building and knowledge creation. Here's hoping that their last year with me as their Teacher Librarian will be an insightful and fruitful year of inquiry, research and sharing one's time and skills for literacy development.