Interesting Data Bases for Teachers

ERIC:http://www.eric.ed.gov/journals

- The Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and

ERIC Gopher Menu for  ESL Teaching Ideas -Gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Clearinghouse/Adjunts/ACLE/Digest -Contains suggestions for the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to ESL students in grades 7-12.

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education: http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu- Funded by the US Department of Education , collects, analyses and disseminates information related to the effective education of linguistics and cultural diverse K-12 learners in USA.

World History Sources; http://worldhistorymatters.org/i -Is an online resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization.

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html- he Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Big Universe
(www.biguniverse.com)

This picture book site is one of our favorites. Mostly geared for elementary and early middle schools students, big universe offers 660 plus- books colorfull enough to capture any child imagination. There´s also weekly Reader and time for kids supplements.

• We will start putting Lexile Labels in about 28.740 of our books.

• We have more than 12,487 books in the Elementary Library and, more than 15,454 books in the Secondary Library.
• We checked out 6,803 items in 2008.
• We are asked for help about 30 to 50 times a day!
• We subscribe to 30 magazines.
• We also have books in other languages like Japanese, Portuguese, French, Spanish.

Some of the activities that have taken place in the Library over the past 113 years are: Staff meetings, Study Hall, After School Homework, Parents Meetings,  JMUN & SAMUN meetings, Advisory periods.

YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO VISIT US AND ASK FOR HELP.

All teachers are invited to display their students class work and projects in the Library’s Black Wall.

Miss Silvia Davis, our Elementary Library Assistant will be giving the “Library Classes, as Miss Kathy will be doing her Masters in New York.

At the beginning of the school year we will have a new carpet, and work stations and you will find some changes oriented to give a more efficient and personal service.

This year the Library, jointly with teachers,  will be using the Lexile Measures, that is an educational tool that connects readers with materials using a common measure called Lexile that denotes both reading ability and text difficulty on the same scale. When used together, Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures enable educators, parents ans students to select books and targeted reading materials that meet and challenge a reader’s unique abilities and interest.

Almost all our books have  a sticker that indicates its level.