Helping our students: Strategy two

Richland's A Framework for Understanding Poverty professional development series is underway again, with this year's sessions highlighting ways in which concepts from Ruby Payne's book have impacted the Richland campus.

 

The library wants to support this endeavor by helping faculty, staff, and administrators find the articles featured in Payne's companion book Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resourced Students.

 

Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. (Located in the Richland Teaching Collection at LB 1060 .H672 2000.) Also available as an ebook (access requires a DCCCD I.D.).

Donovan, M.S., & Bransford, J.D. (2005). How students learn: History, mathematics, and science in the classroom. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

Hill, H.C., Blunk, M.L., Charalambous, Y., Lewis, J.M., Phelps, G.C., Sleep, L., et. Al. (2008). Mathematical knowledge for teaching and the mathematical quality of instruction: An exploratory study. Cognition and Instruction, 26(4), 430-511.

Kilpatrick, J., Swafford, J., & Findell, B. (Eds.) (2001). Adding it up: Helping children learn mathematics. Washington, DC: Mathematics Learning Study Committee, National Research Council.

Krauss, S., Burnner, M., Kunter, M., Baumert, J., Neubrand, M., Blum, W., et al. (2008) Pedagogical content knowledge and content knowledge of secondary mathematics teachers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100(3), 716-725. Available for purchase at APA PsychNET or request through interlibrary loan.

Senge, P., Ross, R., Smithe, B., Roberts, C., & Kleiner, A. (1994). The fifth discipline fieldbook: Strategies and tools for building a learning organization. New York: Doubleday-Currency.

Shulman, L.S. (1987). Assessment for teaching: An initiative for the profession. Phi Delta Kappan, 69(1), 38-44. Request through interlibrary loan.

Get on board the LearningExpress

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The DCCCD libraries have a subscription to the LearningExpress Library, which is a test prep/skills prep database. The practice tests and various exercises cover most of the disciplines taught here at Richland.

Students will find material to help them study for entrance exams including the THEA, SAT, and ACT. There is material for students in our pharmacy programs, and soon there will be more content for nursing students. There is content for grammar, composition, mathematics, and speech practice. There is professional certification practice for public servants and law enforcement.

Faculty, staff, and administrators should also find this database useful. It includes GRE study materials and practice tests; and it includes software training for various platforms and programs.

Visit the database by going to http://www.dcccd.edu/databases, clicking on "L," and scrolling down to the LearningExpress link. Just like all the library databases, this one is almost always available around the clock no matter where you're working. If you are accessing the databases from afar, use your name and student/employee I.D. number (no "e") to log on and start working. 

LearningExpress does require you to set up a profile within the database, so your work can be saved and accessed later.

Need a demo? Let us know by emailing richlandlibrary AT dcccd.edu.

Happy studying,

R.D.

Texas Library Association 2009 Annual Conference

The Texas Library Association is holding its annual conference March 31-April 3 in Houston. The theme for this year’s conference is Libraries: Creating Communities of Ideals and Innovation. Libraries have long held a fundamental role in “supporting progress and leading the way toward innovation and learning.” http://www.txla.org/conference/conf.html

Keynote speakers at this year’s conference are Gloria Steinem and Paula Poundstone. Other featured speakers are technology experts, Jenny Levine, author of The Shifted Librarian, Michael Stephens, co-author of the Library Journal column, “The Transparent Library," Sarah Houghton-Jan, “The Librarian in Black,” and R. David Lanks, co-founder of AskERIC and founder of the Virtual Reference Desk Project.