Ideas for Supporting the Curriculum

Here are a few suggestions for identifying curricular areas that might need additional support in the library collection:

• Find books for next year based on teacher requests for this year.

• Work with staff members and district curriculum committees that can provide information for collection development.

• Review book requests generated from students and parents

• Survey teachers about units they will be teaching next year.

• Collect lists of recommended books given to students for projects; ask teacher whether assignment will be repeated and warrants support.

• Create a category in Destiny for each teacher to collect recommended books lists and materials for topics studied; make it available to other teachers doing the same units.

• Check against curriculum guides and recommended lists of curriculum support materials in review sources.

• Collaborate with teachers to locate and/or purchase materials to support project-based research activities in the school.

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