Teacher Candidate's CRC
What’s the “CRC”?
It’s the “Curriculum Resource Centre” and contains useful materials to help you with your ‘field placement’ teaching. The CRC is located in the Leddy Library’s West Building on the first floor.
How do I start?
Consult Leddy Library's catalogue. It’s available on the Library’s home page: http://www.uwindsor.ca/library. The primary methods of searching are by: “Title”, “Author” and “Keyword”.
What can I borrow and take with me?
Anything! All CRC materials circulate for either two-weeks (CRC Circulating Book Collection) or seven-days.
CRC BOOK COLLECTIONS
Circulating Books (Rows #1 to #8): Primarily a collection of up-to-date books on the theory and practice of teaching. But also includes education relevant books on child psychology, behaviour, etc.
Reference Books (Rows #9 & #10): Mostly books containing subject-related classroom activities and lesson plan ideas. For more information on Web sources for activities and lesson plans, consult the CRC’s “Resource Guide”.
Government Documents (Row #9): Consist of a few reports produced by government agencies, mostly Ontario (i.e., Ministry of Education’s “Ontario Curriculum” guides).
Juvenile Books (Rows #11& #12): Holds a small, but select, collection that ranges from traditional classics (Anne of Green Gables) to contemporary (Harry Potter). It also selectively includes titles in French and other languages.
Picture Books (Row #12): Holds many favourites: “Richard Scarry”, “Dr. Seuss”, “Robert Munsch”, and many more. Most award winning books are represented and a few in other languages (e.g., French and Spanish).
CRC MEDIA ROOM COLLECTIONS
(entrance between CRC Book Rows 5 & 6)
Big Books: A small, but growing, collection of story books intended for pre-school and kindergarten.
Mounted Pictures (Cabinet 3): Contains great visual images of lots of topics, but the main theme is ‘nature’: animals, plants, insects, etc.
Posters (Cabinets 1 & 2): Another useful collection of large, colourful print images covering many popular classroom topics such as language arts, human body, health, ancient world, etc.
Kits: games, hand puppets, manipulatives, etc.
Videos and DVDs: A collection of educational resources such as TVO, National Geographic, National Film Board of Canada, CBC, TLC and many other organizations.
CDs: coverage mostly music and narrative on various topics.
BEYOND THE CRC
The following resources may be used to complement the materials available in the CRC.
Other Leddy Library Materials: When doing “keyword” searches in the library catalogue be aware that other areas of the library may have relevant, useful materials in such areas as ‘sports', 'games’, ‘art’, and ‘music’. There are lots of potentially useful materials available throughout the whole library.
Google: There are many professional organizations on the Web that offer links to great materials. Some of these sites are included in the Education Research Guide.
Your ‘Field Placement’ School: ask your supervising teacher about what’s available through the school’s resource centre and through the school board’s resource centre.
ERIC database: an absolutely essential source for up-do-date articles in educational journals and magazines. It offers articles on both teaching/learning theory & practice. You can find the link from the Education Resources page.
For assistance with any of this, ask at the Library’s Reference Help Centre Desk!
Peter Zimmerman
Education Librarian
pzimmer@uwindsor.ca
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