Product Description

"Brain Friendly School Libraries" provides practical examples of how to align school library programmes and instructional practice with the six key concepts of brain compatible learning: increasing input to the brain; increasing experiential data; multiple source feedback; reducing threat; involving students in learning decision making; and interdisciplinary unit planning. It includes chapters that summarise current brain research and current thinking about its implication for instructional practice in the school library media centre, and also discusses the work of Ellen Langer (mindful learning), Geoffrey and Renette Caine, Bob Sylwester and other major proponents of teaching with the "brain in mind".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524962 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 109 pages

From School Library Journal
An intelligently written book about the role that the school library can play in exercising students' brains. Rooted in current findings on how the brain processes information, and acknowledging several educative models for learning and Information Power's standards for promoting information-literacy development, Sykes's book offers a vision that every school librarian should consider, if not embrace. The first part reviews what neuroscience tells us about learning. Contributing authors relate those findings to classroom planning, making them understandable to the layperson. Subsequent sections suggest components of the school library program that must be addressed including enriched, intellectual, and emotional environments. Further, readers are offered both theoretical and practical approaches to planning and creating these environments and sample lessons. This book will be a handy desk mate to every school librarian and should be a required text in all school media specialist programs.–Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OH
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Review

"Sykes's recommendations and examples are worth considering....Sykes's ideas should enter a professional development conversation." -

Teacher Librarian

About the Author
JUDITH ANNE SYKES has been a junior high school language arts/drama teacher, an elementary teacher-librarian, and School Library Specialist for the Calgary Board of Education, Assistant Principal and Principal. Judith consults, makes educational presentations, and has extensively published, including being editor of IMPACT, the professional journal of the Association of Teacher-Librarianship of Canada.