The document outlines the plan for an EDUC 4500 class session on library research skills. The learning objectives include helping students get assistance from librarians, develop keywords for research topics, and search databases and the catalog. The curriculum covers signing up for interlibrary loans, developing search strategies, searching specific journals and citations, and finding books. Notes indicate some students' proposed topics like technology in ELA classrooms and engaging reluctant readers. Materials needed include a handout and live searching of suggested topics. A reflection notes covering major areas but some techniques like citations were new to most students.

1. EDUC 4500 Class Plan
Instructor:JenniferLubke
Librarian:VC
LearningObjectives
 Studentswill learntogethelpfromlibrarians
 Studentswill learntoidentifyawide range of keywordstodescribetheirresearchfocus
 Studentswill receive aquick refresherindatabase searchtipsandfull textaccessoptions
 Studentswill learntosearchforspecificjournalsbytitle viathe Librarywebsite
 Studentswill learntolocate anarticle workingbackwardsfromacitation
 Studentswill learntolocate booksandeBooksusingthe catalogQuickSearchtab.
ClassCurriculum
 Go overwebsite,gettinghelp,signingupforInterlibraryLoan
 Reminders –enteringtermsinEducationFullText,usingfiltersforpeer-reviewed,scholarly.
 Developingkeywords.Examples onhandout.Gooverchosentopicswithstudents.
 Do sample search,browse forkeywordsandsubjectterms
 Locate a specificjournal (Ex:The EnglishTeacher)
 Searchwithinthatjournal.Showhowto searchthe entire full textof EnglishTeacherforaparticulartopicor
author's name.
 Locate an article froma citation(use a differentexampleie Educational ResearchReview)
 Overviewof QuickSearch.Findabookof interestonthe topicof teachinglanguage arts,demonstrate the place
holdfunction,encourage studentstosignupforlibraryaccounts.
 Quickdiscussionof howtolocate LGBTQ YA and children’sresources(forstudentswiththose topics).
o ALA RainbowList
o YALSA award lists
o AASLreadinglists
o GoodReadstopiclists
o Amazon
 Quicknote of howto find APA informationonourwebsiteforthose notfamiliar
o AlsorefertoWCC for writinghelpingeneral.
NotesabouttheAssignment
From ProfessorLubke:
Here is a list of some of their proposed topics:
 technologyinthe ELA classroom
 howto bestteach complex texttoreluctantreaders
 howto engage boysinELA education
 howto teach publicspeaking,meetingthe ELA standardsforspeaking
 the problemof teacherburnout
 multimodalityinELA education
 oral language anddevelopingthe academicidentitiesof ELLstudents

2. In addition, we have about four students (it's a larger section than last semester) who are proposing to study
diverse texts in the ELA classroom, e.g. resisting the "literary canon," representation of LGBTQ, using graphic
novels, contemporary texts to motivate reluctant readers. For this reason, I think it may be helpful (if possible)
to show them the ALA and YALSA Web sites and the resources available there for teachers who want to
diversify their classroom libraries. You may know more about those sites and available resources than I do.
Last, it seems only a few know APA style; they are all users of MLA, as you might expect. So anything you can
say in support of learning APA would be greatly appreciated!
Search TopicsandDemonstration
Reluctantreadersandcomplex texts.Lexile levels, readinglevels,level of difficulty, encouragement,motivation,
classroomtechniques,independentreading,andincentives.“Complex texts”doesnotworkasa searchtermso must
thinkcreativelyabutotherwaystoexpressthatidea.
MaterialsRequired:
Handout,worklive fromthe website withstudentandprofessorsuggestions.
Reflection
We cover a lot of ground in this session but for the most part these students seem familiar with Education Full Text just
not some of the other research techniques like working backwards from a citation. Dr. Lubke has some “favorite” journals
so we usually use those as examples for browsing and searching full text journal platforms. Also gave a quick plug for ILL
and buy not borrow (if they request LGBTQ YA materials to develop lesson plans, there is a chance we may purchase
those titles instead of just borrowing them).