Teaching and Learning.
I graduated with my BA in Education, from the University of Northern Colorado certified in Speech Communications and Dramatic Arts. This creative background has led my philosophy of education and librarianship, where I truly believe the way to teach students to think about their own ways of understanding is to open their creative minds. My Master's in Library Science is from Rutgers University where I studied under Dr. Carol C. Kuhlthau and learned her method of teaching the Information Search Process (ISP) and art of Guided Inquiry.
Guided Research: Mystery in the Media Center. 2nd ed. Linworth Publishing. 2011.
Excited about the recent release of my 2nd book with updated lessons and the new Standards for the 21st Century Learner included.
Raising Voices: Appreciating Diversity, Building Confidence, Connecting Cultures
by LaDawna Harrington and Rachael Harrington, October 2020
schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/2252089
Guided Research: Mystery in the Media Center. Linworth, Publishing. 2007.
At a book signing with my daughter.
I wrote the book and Rachael illustrated it.
I wanted to develop an inquiry process that would help guide my students to make inferences and to explore ideas. I wanted to provide tools and strategies that enable my students to make sense of their evolving organizational abilities and their beginning efforts to think critically to solve problems. The process can best be described as a research apprenticeship. In order to ignite imagination and creativity the students become detectives researching their own mystery topic, teachers become captains, and the library media center becomes information headquarters. The guided research model developed can be easily adapted for a variety of themes and research projects.
I wrote the book and Rachael illustrated it.
I wanted to develop an inquiry process that would help guide my students to make inferences and to explore ideas. I wanted to provide tools and strategies that enable my students to make sense of their evolving organizational abilities and their beginning efforts to think critically to solve problems. The process can best be described as a research apprenticeship. In order to ignite imagination and creativity the students become detectives researching their own mystery topic, teachers become captains, and the library media center becomes information headquarters. The guided research model developed can be easily adapted for a variety of themes and research projects.
My husband and I love to ride our bikes all over...
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I am originally from Paonia, Colorado, a small fruit farming community, in the western Colorado Rocky Mountains, about 60 miles from Aspen. I have lived in Ohio, Indiana, Manhattan, Staten Island, and now in New Jersey with my husband and our dog. I have 2 grown daughters.
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