The document discusses the purpose and importance of establishing learning resource centers. It outlines that learning resource centers aim to advance student and teacher learning by providing a variety of information resources and learning methods. The centers support modern learning approaches by giving a greater focus to the learner's role and evaluating mechanisms to ensure the centers are an integral part of the educational process. A key goal of the centers is to amalgamate resources, technologies, and educational practices to create a suitable environment for learning. The success of the centers depends on engaging modern learning methods with a focus on learner-centered approaches.
2. INTRODUCTION
The need to develop school libraries is urgent in that, on the one hand
there is a need to convey information via a wide diversity of
technologies and resources, and on the other hand, there is a myriad of
new teacher and student roles to support. Within this view, came the
project of learning centers. The objective is to raise school libraries to an
international and more technical standard. Learning Resource Centres
can also be institutionalized in various institutions for teaching and
learning purposes. The purpose of a resource center is to advanced the
learning experience of students and teachers in any educational sector.
A school utility driven by a qualified expert. It contains several
information resources and their techniques, which the teacher directly
deals to acquire searching skills of information, analyze and evaluate to
build a new knowledge and experience, then develop them using several
learning methods. It also provides services to, facilitate the useful for
both teaching and learning. Learning resources center's general aim is to
ensure learning educational suitable environment that allows learner
benefit from any kind of learning resources.
3. A learning resources center's success depends firstly on the range of its
engagement in modern learning methods implementation, which gives
more concentration to learner role in learning process, and evaluates
work mechanism, in learning resources centers on the bases that learning
resources center is not a place supported with learning resources
accordingly, but educational action and substantial element of different
elements of classroom lesson. The Work mechanism in learning
resources centers requires following two methods and merging between
them.
4. DATA COLLECTED
As a teacher, the library media specialists works with students and other
members of the learning community to analyze learning and information
needs, to locate and use resources that will meet those needs, and to
understand and communicate the information the resource provides.
The library media specialist is knowledgeable about current research on
teaching and learning and skilled in applying its findings to a variety of
situations – particularly those that call upon students to access, evaluate,
and use information from multiple sources in order to learn, to think, and
to create and to apply knowledge.
In short, the library media specialist teaches students to use information
for critical thinking and problem solving using the information literacy
standards for student learning set.
A learning resources center's success depends firstly on the range of its
engagement in modern learning methods implementation, which gives
more concentration to learner role in learning process, and evaluates
work mechanism, in learning resources centers on the bases that learning
resources center is not a place supported with learning resources
accordingly, but educational action and substantial element of different
elements of classroom lesson.
The Work mechanism in learning resources centers requires following
two methods and merging between them.
5. Benefiting from learning resources centers requires each teacher to
implement one lesson weekly (or according to school classes
number) in the learning resources center and to depend, in this
lesson, mainly on group learning method (cooperative learning) .
In the second method, benefiting from learning resources centers
does not require teacher to implement class lesson in learning
resources center, but he has to follow up the same previous
procedures, then allow the students to implement their projects
referring to learning resources center outside the lesson time, and
students to be given, in this case, more time to implement the
project, then require do a presentation and discussion in the class.
Activities:
The learning center implements a group of activities, designed
and implemented by teachers in cooperation with center
specialist.
Methods of implementation of these activities differ according
to educational grades and concentrate on implementation of
modem educational and learning methods. Such activities are:
Reading activities: aim to sow reading habits those like;
summarization and book presentation.
6. Learning activities: these activities are done by student
depending on himself to support his learning.
Educational activities: these activities are done by teacher
to support student learning.
Information search: search on internet and using
references.
Cultural activities: these activities to be done by student in
order to improve his cultural level; school radio, seminars,
lectures and competition.
Cooperative activities: these activities are done by
students to help center to achieve its aims as a center group.
Administrative' activities: these activities appear to
occupy center with waiting lessons, school meetings and
educational coordinator's meetings etc. .
Social activities: the aim of these activities is community
service; like anti-terror activity, anti-smoking etc.
7. Learning resources centers:
1) Self-learning auditorium: Self-learning auditorium should
facilitate access to all kind of information resources: printed,
depending on learning instrument and computerized
resources. Then this auditorium should be available,
attractive and suitable for student of all grades.
2) Self-learning auditorium includes the following: Reception
and visitors serving area, cataloguing, borrowing and –
management. – Reading and perusal area.
3) Self-learning area (using several resources) – Electronic
learning area – Area when can be maintained learning
resources (printed and not printed) – Catalogues area (using
computer)
2) Group-learning auditorium: The most important characterizing this
auditorium is: it has a various equipments and uses, whereas available
projectors depend on computer, radio or live presentation through digital
camera. There is available, also, flexible furniture which can be reshaped
to suit all kind of group and cooperative learning. And it also prepared
for simple designing and production of educational materials and several
media.
8. Reasons for establishing resources centers:
The strong connection between learning resources and method, and
passing away supporting and cultural general role of school
libraries into essential, accurately planned, role to achieve the
method and its purposes.
The book and printed material become not the only information
resource.
Development of educational theories, international tends to self
learning, taking in account differences of individuals, make the
learner the axis of educational process, and the teacher role change
into a leader and facilitator of learning process.
Learning resources centers concentrate on amalgamation of
resources, information and communication technologies with
educational practices inside centers.
Reasons for establishing resource centers
The strong connection between learning resources and method, and
passing away supporting and cultural general role of school libraries
into essential, accurately planned, role to achieve the method and its
purposes.
The book and printed material become not the only information
resource.
9. Development of educational theories, international tends to self
learning, taking in account differences of individuals; make the
learner the axis of educational process, and the teacher role change
into a leader and facilitator of learning process.
Learning resources centers concentrate on amalgamation of
resources, information and communication technologies with
educational practices inside centers.
Learning resources center specialist's role
As a teacher, the library media specialists works with students and
other members of the learning community to analyze learning and
information needs, to locate and use resources that will meet those
needs, and to understand and communicate the information the
resource provides.
The library media specialist is knowledgeable about current
research on teaching and learning and skilled in applying its
findings to a variety of situations – particularly those that call upon
students to access, evaluate, and use information from multiple
sources in order to learn, to think, and to create and to apply
knowledge.
In short, the library media specialist teaches students to use
information for critical thinking and problem solving using the
information literacy standards for student learning set.
10. A learning resources center's success depends firstly on the range
of its engagement in modern learning methods implementation,
which gives more concentration to learner role in learning process,
and evaluates work mechanism.
In learning resources centers on the bases that learning resources
center is not a place supported with learning resources accordingly,
but educational action and substantial element of different
elements of classroom lesson. The Work mechanism in learning
resources centers requires following two methods and merging
between them.
11. Conclusion
Learning resources centers are the correct way to activate
school library and to amalgamate it into educational
procedure as well as it is a part from it, but not among
subsidiary utilities. One of the biggest problems that still
face school libraries is that school libraries still playing
general cultural role lead to isolate them away from
educational process. So they became a place to cover
waiting lessons and an escape for every lazy teacher, who
does not desire to carry out lessons, whereas learning
resources centers project has put the center among
educational process through its support by necessary
technical and librarian equipments needed for teachers
educational tasks performance within modem method,
and supported these centers with supporting for
curriculum educational resources, suitable for age types
existing there, so center became a necessary place where
teachers run to, to help them to implement their tasks and
achieve their educational aims.
12. REFERENCE
The College Learning Resource Center. Littleton.
Learning Resource Centers in Community Colleges.
The Learning Re
source Center—Its Development and Implementation
Crawford,