Evaluation

Directions for Current Teachers:

 The evaluation of you classroom library depends on your students and your colleagues. If you are able, before the new school year or semester begins, ask your trusted and experienced colleagues with superlative classroom libraries of their own to evaluate your library based on what this WebQuest has deemed important: Organization, Ease of Student Use, and the Collection of Books within the library. 

What are the strengths, weaknesses, potential problems, or areas of improvement based on the ideas of your colleagues? Have them answer these questions so that you are able to synthesize and reflect on what might need changing.

If you are unable to access the advice of your colleagues, your students will show you what works best and what areas need to change. Observe your students' use of the classroom library and reflect upon what might need to change. Base it on the three important criteria as stated previously: Organization, Ease of Student Use, and the Collection of Books within the library. 

For example, are the books in your library engaging students? Are the books too easy or too difficult for their reading levels? All of these things will help you evaluate your classroom library.

Directions for Future Teachers:

In order to evaluate your plans for a classroom library, you must base it on three important concepts that this WebQuest has deemed important: Organization, Ease of Student Use, and the Collection of Books within the library. 

What are the strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement of your library plans based on these three criteria? Having current teachers or fellow future teachers analyze your plans using these three criteria is important for the evaluation of your research and creativity. 

As you learn new ideas and see different concepts being used in the field, modify your plans to reflect the ones you admire or have learned to be effective.    

Conclusion