[LM_NET] Research on a fixed schedule

[MOLLY CLARK <MCLARK2@PHOENIX.K12.NY.US>]

Ugh!  It's that time of year again. The research projects that were
started with enthusiasm six weeks ago are now the bane of my (and the
kids') life.
 
In actuality, we've only worked on these projects for 6 days, 30
minutes/day, or just 3 hours.  But it FEELS like an eternity.  We are
all sick of it. Even the classes that are doing a project assigned by
the teacher are tired of them.  Those teachers are getting impatient
with the amount of time it takes, and this happens every year.
 
If you are on a fixed schedule with little or no collaboration, how do
you teach research skills?  Do you do a whole project?  How do you set
it up so that it doesn't drag on, or how do you keep the kids (and
yourself) motivated?
 
It is compounded by the fact that I have 9 sections of each grade
level. Next year I may have my schedule changed so that I see each class
for 25 minutes twice every 6 days, as opposed to 40 minutes once/week
now.  If that happens, I will totally have to re-think the way I do
things.
 
How do you do it?
 
Thanks,
 
Molly
 
 
Molly Clark
Intermediate Librarian
Michael Maroun Elementary School
Phoenix, NY
mclark2@phoenix.k12.ny.us
 
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks

about education."  Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education


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