Educator Appreciation Event - Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning Book Signing October 6, 2011

Join us at Fiction Addiction where educators, media specialists, and home school parents will receive 25% off their entire purchase during the event (proof of employment or a home school association card is required). Light refreshments will be served.

Virginia Wallace and Whitney Husid will be signing copies of their new professional book, Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning: School Librarians and Teachers Partner for Student Achievement (Libraries Unlimited, paperback, $35.00).

Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning: School Librarians and Teachers Partner for Student Achievement is a step-by-step guide to collaborative lesson planning that promotes inquiry learning among students of various ages and abilities. With the best practices and the models outlined in this book, teachers and librarians can combine their expertise to create highly motivating and engaging units that meet standards and emphasize skills needed for the 21st century.

The book is directed at collaborative research projects that take advantage of the individual strengths of classroom teachers and school librarians. The recommended model can be used to create inquiry-based units that incorporate prior knowledge; higher-order thinking skills; essential questions; information-search skills; research models; authentic assessments (needs, formative, and summative); rubrics; and reflection. Ideal for both novices and experienced practitioners, the guide also addresses student variables (diversity, multiple intelligences, learning styles, cognitive abilities); state standards; increased information literacy; and integration of Web 2.0 tools.

Virginia L. Wallace, PhD, retired professor of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, has a doctorate in instructional technology and distance education. Dr. Wallace is the author of School News Shows: Video Production with a Focus.

Whitney Norwood Husid, PhD, received her degree in clinical psychology and is currently working on a master's degree in library and information science at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.