Turning Kids on to Research: The Power of Motivation

by Marilyn P. Arnone, Ruth V. Small Ph.D.

Overview

Motivate and inspire your students as you teach them valuable information skills. These authors show you how to build a motivation toolkit filled with dozens of quick, easy-to-apply techniques for planning, improving, and enhancing information skills lessons. Designed as a professional guide for practicing media specialists, this book can also be used for in-service training, in instructional techniques courses in preservice academic programs for school library media specialists, and by classroom teachers involved in teaching information skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563087820
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/15/2000
Series:	Information Literacy Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

RUTH V. SMALL is Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York, and the coordinator of the school media program.

MARILYN P. ARNONE is owner/president of Creative Media Solutions, a full service video production firm and an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University.

Editorial Reviews

The authors have gathered "motivational moments" from dozens of practicing library media specialists (LMS) and have interspersed them throughout this practical guide. Each one provides the name and school of the LMS, the targeted grade level (middle grades through high school), instructional goal, information skills taught, and the motivational goal as well as a description of the assignment. Various well-known information-skills models have been synthesized into three broad research stages: beginning (definition, selection, planning), during (exploration, collection, organization), and ending (presentation, evaluation). A series of questions and answers summarizes the main points in each chapter, and each one includes a lengthy list of references. Good, concrete suggestions for developing a set of motivational techniques and tools to instill enthusiasm for research make this a useful purchase for all school librarians.-Jessica Foster, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

Beginning with a discussion of how to build a "motivation tool kit," this book addresses the need to constantly motivate children throughout the research activities. Small (school media, Syracuse) and Arnone, cofounder of Creative Broadcast Associates, Inc., provide information about how to move students through a thorough research process, including picking a topic and information gathering skills, but emphasize the issue of motivation, incorporating dozens of "motivational moments" success stories from practicing teachers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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