| Unified Library Home Page |
| Linda Langdon & Library Staff, Near North Board of Education |
| Links for Educators - 12 Steps to Successful Projects |
This site is designed to lead students & teachers to Web sites to support the new Ontario Secondary Curriculum.
Your school library wants to work with you to ensure
success whenever you assign projects to students.
There are 3 partners in this process:
Staff |
Library personnel |
Students |
The following 12 step process may, at first, seem time-consuming
but after 1 or 2 projects, it will seem like second nature, and the results will be great.
You need not concentrate on all steps in all projects.
Within 1 grade, several teachers may each concentrate on different steps.
12 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
| 1 | Brainstorm possible topics which meet teachers' & students' objectives and which can be done with accessible resources. In most cases, the teacher should confer with Library personnel to ensure we can provide ample, adequate, accurate, up-to-date resources. If staff can provide a list of URLs (Internet Resources) beforehand, those can be pre-loaded on our Library home page. or the school's library web page.) |
| 2 | Staff & students in class develop keywords and a search strategy. |
| 3 | Staff establish guidelines on essay or research paper? thesis? format? length? due date? persona/role? etc. |
| 4 | A lesson on search strategies which could be delivered by staff or Library personnel covering search techniques for online book catalogues, and the Internet including types of & tricks for search engines. (Search strategies advice) |
| 5 | A lesson on accessing sources of information which could be delivered by staff or Library personnel in junior grades, or presented in list form for senior students. What varieties of resources are available? Advantages & disadvantages of each. Review "our model" for ideas on proper order of using various research sources. |
| 6 | Library research time which has been previously booked by staff in the Library booking calendar. Library staff provide lessons on using any or all types of resources, & lessons on saving from the Net & on copying and pasting from the Net into word processors. |
| 7 | A lesson by staff or Board librarian on quoting and paraphrasing, or by staff on using "persona" to avoid plagiarism |
| 8 | A lesson by the teacher on note-taking strategies (A site designed for listening and note-taking but with excellent suggestions)(U of T hints) |
| 9 | Staff teaches students how to transfer information from research sources into a framework, keeping track of bibliographic data. |
| 10 | Lessons by staff, if necessary, about producing effective essays or research
papers (West
Ferris site or Northern
site) (grammar,
writing guides) (Microsoft
Word), or PowerPoint
presentations, or Publisher
brochures, or Web pages (with Microsoft Front Page),
acquiring and
importing graphics, giving effective
presentations, (Tutorials for Microsoft 2000 products.) |
| 11 | A lesson by staff or Library personnel on preparing references and bibliographies |
| 12 | Staff & students & Library staff review the project to suggest improvements and to submit names of excellent resources &/or excellent URLs [Uniform Resource Locators - www.resource.com...] |
An excellent site for information about the Research Process can be found at the
Bellingham School site. The Research Process
and also a checklist to evaluate projects.
See also Research Stages