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Notes:
Judiths School Library Brain Research Checklist:
- Have stimulating work areas?
- Have sounds of music playing?
- Have multiple displays of cognitive work in many formats: poetry, sculpture, video, PowerPoint, web pages, docudrama, demonstrations, surveys?
- Have students reading orally, silently, being read to?
- Have students engaged in challenging and intellectually stimulating projects collaboratively planned with their teachers?
- Include lots of student input?
- Have sounds of laughter?
- Alter in physical structures often? Every four to six weeks?
- Include physical movement?
- Allow water bottles or easy access to fountains?
- Have reflective places and spaces where students are journaling, conferencing, observing, interviewing?
- Have celebrations of learning?
- Have projects that cross curricular boundaries?
- Have a balance of novelty and relevancy?
- Make effective use of time blocks?
- Encourage the use of mind maps, webbing, charting?
- Include ways for student empowerment through technology?
- Sykes, Judith. The Role of the Teacher-Librarian in the 21st Century. School Libraries in Canada 21, no. 2ave a warm and inviting, welcoming environment?
