Decalogues
Decalogue for students
Are you de libro?
(Do you worth a book?)
one
If you like reading… | six
If you are conscious of the effort
that authors, editors, distributors, booksellers, librarians, etc., do for
making works and bring them to you… |
two
If you like to create your own ideas without “cutting” and “pasting” someone else ideas… | seven
If you quotate the authors and the consulted works in your reports… |
three
If you have curiosity to investigate with books, the Internet and documents of any kind… | eight
If you avoid to photocopy without ryme or reason, and when you do it you go to licensed places… |
four
If you use the library to read, to ask for books to lend, to search for information, to study… | nine
If you spend a while reading what you like the most every day… |
five
If you like to go around into bookstores and leaf through books… | ten
If you have updated your own bookstand and you like to interchange books with friends… |
You are de libro!
(You do worth a book!)
Decalogue for teachers
Are you de libro?
(Do you worth a book?)
one
If you like reading…
| six
If you value the creative works of the students and you propose tasks that avoid de copy and the plagiarism…
|
two
If you spend a part of class time for reading and teaching to understand the texts… | seven
If you are conscious of the effort that for the authors is to create their works and you know the rights they own on them… |
three
If you use books, the Internet and other documents in your class and you teach to investigate contrasting different sources… | eight
If you teach your pupils to integrate and quotate the works they consult in their reports… |
four
If you commonly use the school library with your students and you show them how to use it properly… | nine
If you avoid to photocopy without rhyme or reason and when you do you go to licensed places… |
five
If you encourage your pupils to visit public libraries and bookstores… | ten
If you value books and reading as first order means for personal and professional self development… |
You are de libro!
(You do worth a book!)
Decalogue for Teacher Training
and Resources Centers
Are you de libro?
(Do you worth a book?)
one
If the training team likes to read… | six
If the Training center disposes of an
active documentation service for the teaching staff… |
two
If reading is a priority in training plans on every level and subject… | seven
If a good relationship with libraries and bookstores in the zone is encouraged… |
three
If the importance of teaching to investigate with books, the Internet and different sources of information is encouraged in the courses… | eight
If the author’s rights of the submitted papers and of the materials used in the training activities are respected in
terms of reproduction and difussion… |
four
If there is collaboration with school libraries to orientate their activities and complemente their resources… | nine
If there are stablished rules in the center aimed to do only legal photocopying and scanning of books and other publications… |
five
If the books and other documental resources are a fist order support in the training, reflection, and debate activities… | ten
If reading is valued as an essential mean for personal and professional self development… |
You are de libro!
(You do worth a book!)
Decalogue for educational supervisors
Are you de libro?
(Do you worth a book?)
one
If the supervision team likes reading… | six
If books and personal creation are valued as essential instruments of learning and teaching… |
two
If centers are oriented to make of reading a learning of priority, compelling every subject… | seven
If there is consciousness of the effort that for the authors is to create their works and about the rights they own on them… |
three
If teachers are stimulated to teach to investigate with books, the Internet and any kind of documents… | eight
If norms of intelectual property are diffused in the centers and legal photocopying and scanning of books and other publications is promoted… |
four
If there is collaboration to make the school library have the needed conditions to give a proper service for teachers and students… | nine
If teachers are motivated to involve themselves in a group reading project in which they meet with families… |
five
If initiatives to get the school libraries commonly used as reading, information and learnig centers are encouraged… | ten
If reading is valuated as an essential mean for personal and professional self development… |
You are de libro!
(You do worth a book!)