Whitley,+Edie

Pre-Assessment
Joelton Elementary School is located in the Northwest corner of Davidson County. Joelton has approximately 323 students and is a Title 1 school. The school is a K-4 school with seventeen homerooms, four specialty area teachers, and one resource teacher. The school is in a very rural area with very middle to low income parents. This is our first year to have a computer lab complete with seventeen, brand new Dell computers in addition to the sixteen Dell computers in our library. We do not service any ELL children or any physically disabled or MIP classes. This lesson will target the faculty of Joelton Elementary school. By teaching them about the Tennessee Electronic Library, they can better prepare their students for projects they will be doing. Teachers can also use it for personal use for newspapers, magazines, and to back up their lesson plan with any research they may need. I began my pre-assessment by sending out a survey to faculty that simply asked them four questions. I sent the email to twenty-two teachers and I had thirteen teachers return the email to me. I have attached a copy of the survey with the lesson plan.

Standard(s) and/or Goal(s)
=== The standards met by this lesson can be found at the Tennessee Department of Education Website under computer technology. These are the standards students need to learn, however, I am going to teach the faculty about the Tennessee Electronic Library which will help teachers meet these standards with their students, teach their students to research, and make learning fun! I have included the website for the Tennessee Department of Education. === .  http://state.tn.us/education/ci/curriculum.shtml **Instructional Objective(s) ** ** Audience ** : The audience of this lesson is 23 members of Joelton Elementary School’s faculty. Because there are only 17 computers in our lab and there are 13 others in the library, my librarian and I have decided to break our group into two groups. We have written identical lesson plans for both groups. ** Behavior: ** Our faculty is somewhat resistant to learning about TEL. They feel like it is going to be something extra added to their plate, and some of them have voiced to me that there are so many other things they could be doing then having this in-service, so I find that somewhat frustrating because I am so excited to teach them what I know! I have already tried to show my team members and they told me they did not want to learn because they didn’t have time. ** Conditions: ** The lesson will take place in the media center and the computer lab on an in-service “night”. This is a day we all agreed to stay after school so that we could have the Monday before Thanksgiving off.
 * Degree: ** Both teacher and librarian will be guiding teachers, and walking them through the TEL website. We will show them how to search for articles, use InfoBits, and then allow them to search around on their own.

Materials, Media, and other Resources
Teachers will take a slip of paper out of a basket as they walk in the door. On the paper will be the address for TEL, which is http://tntel.tnsos.org/. We will ask teachers to log on to the address. Once they have gotten to the site, they will be asked to click on “Gale Databases”. This will take them to a map of Tennessee. Teachers must simply find Davidson and click on the county. Once they get to the list of all of the Davidson County schools, teachers must find “Joelton Elementary”. The password to access the databases is “elvis” with no capital letters. They will then be redirected to all of //Gale’s Databases//. We will allow teachers time to absorb how many different databases there are for a few minutes, and then redirect them to //Kids InfoBits//. We are going to research mammals today so we direct teachers to the “animals” button. After choosing animals, teachers choose “mammals” and a long list of mammals appears. Any mammal they click on, gives them between two-four articles for them to read about the animal the chose. Some articles give them pictures.

Set Induction:
 While teachers are logging on to TEL, we are both going to be walking around within our groups and giving teachers a piece of papers with different mammals on the paper. This will also get them curious about what they are going to be looking at on the computer. As teachers are looking up their mammals that they were given, I will pass out a note card to them. On the note card, I am going to ask them to write down the name of their animal, how many articles did InfoBits have on their mammal, and did they get any videos or pictures on their mammal? I will point out to them the orange triangle for a more difficult reading level and the green dot for an easier reading level. I also want them to take note of the camera, because this will help them to know if their article has pictures. These are things they can teach their students so that they can be good researchers. Next, I am going to ask them to research anything they want on their own in Kids InfoBits using any of the icons. They may choose any category they want. Then, in the next 5-10 minutes we’ll all share what we found on the website. If they just want to report that they found a great picture, a place where there are state maps, or even a place that helps with writing, all of those are acceptable. The object is to allow them to browse. When the time is up we will discuss what they each found. Some of them may want to know how to navigate to where the other person was and I’ll be walking around showing and teaching at the same time. This will be a time where they will all have done some exploring, so they should have some great ideas.
 * Instructional Sequence **

Closure
At the end of the lesson, I will take my group back to the main desktop so that we can walk through how to get back to TEL. I will walk the group through the steps of logging back on to the Tennessee Electronic Library and remind them of the password. I want my faculty to come away with a “WOW” sense because I feel like this is such a great gift. Not only is this for the kids but teachers can use this for personal use too. More then that I will stress how important this is for them to share with their students so that they can teach them to be good researchers and to take advantage of our computer lab by bringing all the kids as a group—the students will love using TEL! **Assessment **  Assessment for me will be seeing how many teachers take advantage of using TEL through our computer lab where they can get all of their students on at one time. I will know that through my librarian. Quite possible too, I will get some positive feedback from some teachers.

I know I am going to have some teachers that are absolutely thrilled about the idea of TEL, and the simpler I make it for them better. However, some teachers feel that they really can’t handle anything else. They do not even want to come to the library this year because it has to be a collaborative lesson. I think that the more they see the other teachers using it and loving it, maybe it will rub off on them! My next target group? A group of parents coming after school to learn about TEL in the lab!
 * Reflection **