How do I schedule a librarian visit to my classroom? (Advocacy Essay)

It is useful to schedule for a librarian to come to your class as you begin the advocacy class, to do a follow-up library orientation focused specifically on finding a policy.  You should do that during Week 5.  


Here is the text of an e-mail from librarian Cathy Palmer in 2011:


Dear All,
If you would like a librarian to come to your classroom and review the options that your students have for locating policies for their advocacy essays, please submit a request using the Libraries' Instruction Request form.  <http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/workshops/instruction-request-form.html>.  Please remember to include your classroom location in the request.  As a reminder, the librarian will come to your classroom and offer a short review of the process and resources available for locating policies.  We can also provide a review of resources available for the critical biography essays.

Cathy Palmer


Library Orientations almost always are more effective and focused if you have contacted the librarian ahead of time.  

How do I grade the evaluations at Mid-term?

There are a couple of ways to do this.  You will need to use your own judgement here, but here is one thought.

Create two grade books in eee, one indicating quantity and the other quality.  In the the quantity grade book, simply check that students are keeping up with their sources and evaluations each week, noting the number per week.  Do not read the evaluations every week -- just count them up as aligns with your source and evaluation requirements for the quarter.  Then two or three times during the quarter, read and assess the sources and evaluations in line with the rubric and with what you have emphasized to your students.  I recommend doing the first one at the two week mark, but some people do it when each paper is turned in, or once at week 5 and once at week 10.  You have to plan ahead and look for those little gaps where you see you will not be reading drafts or grading papers.