I hope to be a School Librarian in an elementary school setting. How to conduct research is an important skill to learn for all grades and I am focusing on 4th graders for this assignment. They are continuing the foundations they learned early on in elementary school and are beginning to apply them in preparation for a more intense curriculum in Middle School. The following is a list of anticipated strategies to accomplish various transfer outcomes.
- Teach the topic or skill with the intention of students’ positive transfer of their learning.
I would teach the students how to conduct research by incorporating what they are learning in other classes such as Social Studies, and have them research a certain topic from that class. If they are studying Indian tribes I would have them use the library catalog computer to find books on the subject and find them on the shelf.
- Teach the topic/skill to facilitate students’ near transfer of their learning.
If students are studying how to conduct research in their computer class I would have them conduct similar research in the library on computers that would overlap strategies that they are learning in that class.
- Teach the topic/skill to facilitate students’ far transfer of their learning.
If a student has to use reasoning skills to determine how to make a bank shot in basketball they will examine the situation in a methodical way. It is a similar thought process in research but would definitely be a far transfer of learning. Hopefully they would use those reasoning skills in other unrelated situations.
- Teach the topic/skill to prevent students’ negative transfer of their learning.
One must allow for many different types of research methods to be examined and tried so that a student does not simply think that there is only one way to do research. Single vision thinking would hinder learning in other areas and would be a negative transfer of learning.
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