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Weed Professional Collection?
What
is more professional than a current and appropriate professional
collection? What is more unprofessional than an outdated
and inaccurate professional collection? Of all the collections
in your media center, the professional collection should
be weeded with a vengeance! You do NOT want to maintain
questionable professional materials. If you do, you risk
losing credibility for your entire program with your teachers
and administration.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Professional
collection materials are most often grouped in a small separate
collection area. Most will be classified in the 370s, but
some will be classed with their subject area. If you maintain
vertical files, you may have a section here for professional
materials.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Do
you remember the 1960s? As an educator? As a child? As history?
In any case, you will no doubt agree that K-12 education
and the approach to students have changed dramatically in
the past few decades. Is your professional collection still
living in the 60s?
Methods
of student discipline and legal recourse have changed in
today's educational environment. Approaches to students
with learning disabilities, social, or medical problems
have evolved. Students (and young teachers!) are much more
sophisticated today. Activity and crafts books from past
generations may not have much appeal to the student accustomed
to today's visual arts. Likewise, a new teacher may be only
mildly amused by finding only books on bulletin boards that
deal with push pins and flannel!
Teaching
methods materials that deal with specific subject areas
afford you an ideal opportunity to collaborate with teachers
on the rebuilding as well as the weeding of those subject
areas. Insist on maintaining your own professional standards
and weed even if you encounter some nostalgic reluctance!
Give materials away as relics of the past if you must, but
keep your professional collection professional.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- 100
activities for gifted children, 1962.
- 500
live ideas for the grade teacher, 1952. LCCN 52010891
- Adolescents
and the challenge of maturity; a guide for parents and teachers,
[1965]. LCCN 65020549
- Alcohol
and social responsibility; a ;new educational approach,
[1949]. LCCN 50005280
- Alcohol
education for classroom and community, a source book for
educators, [1964]. LCCN 63020190
- Alcohol-narcotics
education: a handbook for teachers, 1967. LCCN 67021880
- All
purpose bulletin boards, 1968.
- American
education : its organization and control; a self-teaching
program, [1968]. LCCN 68022367
- Approaches
to public relations for the music educator, [1968]. LCCN
68026880
- Art
appreciation for junior and senior high schools, 1931. LCCN
31025656
- Baited
bulletin boards a handbook for teachers, 1954. LCCN 54031051
- Better
teaching in secondary schools, [1964]. LCCN 64018335
- Biology
as inquiry; a book of teaching methods, 1968. LCCN 68019897
- Books
and the teen-age reader; a guide for teachers, librarians,
and parents, [1967]. LCCN 67013685
- Books
for teachers of English, an annotated bibliography, [1968].
LCCN 68063021
- Breakthrough
in teacher education, 1968. LCCN 68054945
- Bulletin
boards for the new math, 1965.
- Chalk
illustration : a manual for technical teachers, 1966. LCCN
64018837
- The
changing curriculum: science, 1966. LCCN 66030550
- Characteristics
of teachers, their description, cfomparison, and appraisal;
a research study, [1960]. LCCN 60007727
- Classification
for information retrieval, 1968. LCCN 68003538
- Classroom
grouping for teachability, [1967]. LCCN 66028763
- Classroom
teacher's guide to audio-visual materials, 1967.
- Clinical
experiences in teaching for the student teacher or intern,
1967. LCCN 67016217
- The
complexities of an urban classroom, 1968. LCCN 68013609
- Comprehensive
classroom management & managing students, 1960.
- Contemporary
English in the elementary school, [1967]. LCCN 67006069
- Contemporary
mathematics for elementary teachers, [1966]. LCCN 66018438
- Controlling
classroom misbehavior, [1965]. LCCN 68007147
- Correction
of speech defects of early childhood, [c1937]. LCCN 38002402
- Corrective
and remedial teaching; principles and practices, [1966].
LCCN 66002986
- The
courts and the public schools, 1955. LCCN 55005122
- Creative
dramatics for children; a practical manual for teachers
and leaders, 1952. LCCN 524670
- Creative
techniques for teaching the slow learner, 1964. LCCN 64019138
- Criteria
for theories of instruction, [1968]. LCCN 68025474
- Current
trends in science education, [1966]. LCCN 66015220
- Developing
vocational instruction, 1967. LCCN 67026846
- Diagnostic
and remedial teaching: a guide to practice in elementary
and secondary schools, 1956. LCCN 56001809
- The
disadvantaged early adolescent; more effective teaching,
[1968]. LCCN 68013528
- Discipline
in education [filmstrip], 1964.
- Discovering
meanings in elementary school mathematics, [1963]. LCCN
63015027
- The
dynamics of team teaching, [1965]. LCCN 65017724
- Early
years at school; a textbook for students of early childhood
education, 1949. LCCN 49050181
- Easy
to make bulletin boards; a collection of creative art ideas
school bulletin boards, c1963.
- The
educable mentally retarded child and his teacher, [1964].
LCCN 64020819
- Educating
America's children; elementary school curriculum and methods,
[1954]. LCCN 54007155
- Education
and social crisis; perspectives on teaching disadvantaged
youth, [1967]. LCCN 67018980
- Education
as a profession, 1956. LCCN 56010901
- The
education of science teachers, [1968]. LCCN 68018956
- Educational
games and activities, a sourcebook for parents and teachers,
c1966.
- Electricity
and electronics teaches modern concepts, 1968. LCCN 68007408
- Elementary
handcrafts for elementary schools; projects for unit teaching,
[1956]. LCCN 56008712
- Elementary
teacher's classroom science demonstrations and activities,
[1964]. LCCN 64022805
- English
for new Americans; teaching procedures and story text, with
accompanying student workbook, [1960]. LCCN 60014986
- English
for the rejected; training literacy in the lower streams
of the secondary school, 1964. LCCN 64021552
- English
today and tomorrow; a guide for teachers of English, [1964].
LCCN 64012552
- Evaluating
pupils' understanding of arithmetic, [1964]. LCCN 64011055
- Evaluation
in home economics, [c1953]. LCCN 53000161
- Evaluation
materials for use in teaching child development, [1966].
LCCN 66013534
- Handbook
for school media personnel, 1980. LCCN 80021152
- A
handbook of arts and crafts for elementary and junior high
school teachers, [1961]. LCCN 61015596
- Instructional
Materials Centers [1969], LCCN 76091287
- Introduction
to online information systems, 1984.
- Introduction
to technical services for library technicians, 1985. LCCN
85010332
- An
introduction to the Sears list of subject headings, 1967.
LCCN 67110082
- The
microcomputer facility and the school library media specialist,
1986. LCCN 85026827
- The
time-lag in cataloging, 1973. LCCN 72008097
- School
libraries : international developments, 1980. LCCN 72003440
- The
use of technology in the administrative functions of the
school library media program, 1983.
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