Decalogues


Decalogue for students


(Do you worth a book?)


If you like reading


If you are conscious of the effort
that authors, editors, distributors, booksellers, librarians, etc., do for
making works and bring them to you…


If you like to create your own ideas without “cutting” and “pasting” someone else ideas…


If you quotate the authors and the consulted works in your reports…



If you have curiosity to investigate with books, the Internet and documents of any kind…


If you avoid to photocopy without ryme or reason, and when you do it you go to licensed places…


If you use the library to read, to ask for books to lend, to search for information, to study…


If you spend a while reading what you like the most every day

 


If you like to go around into bookstores and leaf through books…


If you have updated your own bookstand and you like to interchange books with friends…



(You do worth a book!)

 

 

Decalogue for teachers



(Do you worth a book?)

 
If you like reading

 

 
If you value the creative works of the students and you propose tasks that avoid de copy and the plagiarism…
 

 
If you spend a part of class time for reading and teaching to understand the texts…


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…

 
If you use books, the Internet and other documents in your class and you teach to investigate contrasting different sources…


If you teach your pupils to integrate and quotate the works they consult in their reports…

 
If you commonly use the school library with your students and you show them how to use it properly…

 
If you avoid to photocopy without rhyme or reason and when you do you go to licensed places…

 
If you encourage your pupils to visit public libraries and bookstores


If you value books and reading as first order means for personal and professional self development


(You do worth a book!)

 

 

Decalogue for Teacher Training
and Resources Centers


(Do you worth a book?)

 
If the training team likes to read


 
If the Training center disposes of an
active documentation service for the teaching staff…

 
If reading is a priority in training plans on every level and subject…



If a good relationship with libraries and bookstores in the zone is encouraged…


 
If the importance of teaching to investigate with books, the Internet and different sources of information is encouraged in the courses…


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…

 
If there is collaboration with school libraries to orientate their activities and complemente their resources…



 
If there are stablished rules in the center aimed to do only legal photocopying and scanning of books and other publications…

 

 
If the books and other documental resources are a fist order support in the training, reflection, and debate activities…


If reading is valued as an essential mean for personal and professional self development



(You do worth a book!)

 

 

Decalogue for educational supervisors



(Do you worth a book?)

 
If the supervision team likes reading


 
If books and personal creation are valued as essential instruments of learning and teaching…

 
If centers are oriented to make of reading a learning of priority, compelling every subject



If there is consciousness of the effort that for the authors is to create their works and about the rights they own on them…


 
If teachers are stimulated to teach to investigate with books, the Internet and any kind of documents



If norms of intelectual property are diffused in the centers and legal photocopying and scanning of books and other publications is promoted…

 
If there is collaboration to make the school library have the needed conditions to give a proper service for teachers and students…

 
If teachers are motivated to involve themselves in a group reading project in which they meet with families…

 

 
If initiatives to get the school libraries commonly used as reading, information and learnig centers are encouraged…


If reading is valuated as an essential mean for personal and professional self development



(You do worth a book!)