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Curriculum
Materials Center (CMC)
Location: University
Library, Second Floor, Room 206
Coordinator:
, Instruction Coordinator and Curriculum Materials/Education Librarian
Hours: Monday - Thursday: 8am to midnight; Friday - Saturday: 9am to 9pm; Sunday: 9am to midnight
Virtual Tour: http://www.library.american.edu/tour/360/cmc.mov
Mission | Reservations | Finding Curriculum Materials and Juvenile Literature | About the Collections
Mission
The
CMC collections support the curriculum of the School of Education, Teaching and Health (SETH).
Types of publications with the CMC collections include the following:
- Textbooks (K-12)
- Curriculum
frameworks
- Lesson
plans
- Juvenile
literature (children's and young adult)
- Manipulatives
- Computer
software
- DVDs
and VHS videos
Some
of the supplementary materials (e.g. DVDs, videos,
software, etc.) are located in Media Services, which is located
on the University Library's lower level.
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Reservations
The
CMC may be reserved for SETH courses, SETH student groups, or other
education-related events.
Please email
or call 202-885-3845 to make a reservation.
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Finding
Curriculum Materials and Juvenile Literature
- Books
and Media
- Teaching
Guides and Lesson Plans
ERIC Searching Hints
- EJ
numbers refer to journal articles. Search the ALADIN
catalog by journal title to determine if the journal is owned in print at
AU or another WRLC library. Search AU
electronic journals to see if the journal is full text
online.
- ED
numbers refer to ERIC documents. Most ERIC documents published 1993 to
present may be full text in either version of ERIC. If the
full text is unavailable online (as is the case with most
ERIC documents published before 1993), take the ED number
to the Periodicals Services Desk on the library's lower level and ask for assistance with ERIC (MFiche
8) in the Microform
Collections.
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About the Collections
Teaching Collection | Larissa Gerstel Critical Literacy Collection | CMC Reference Collection
Teaching Collection
Physical items from this collection may be checked out by American University affiliates. Others are welcome to use print materials or electronic databases on site.
Textbooks: High quality K-12 textbooks for language arts, social studies, mathematics, sciences, foreign languages and music are collected for teacher candidates to use for curricular lesson planning.
Curriculum Development Library (Kraus) or KCDL
Online: Most KCDL materials (curricula, frameworks,
lesson plans, strategies, etc.) are indexed from 1986
to the present in KCDL
Online (AU community only). The print indexes are located
in the CMC Reference Collection at LB 1570.K73. KCDL materials
not available full text online are available on microfiche (MFiche 76) in Periodicals on the library's lower level.
Additional
curriculum guides are also located in Periodicals on the lower level as part of the ERIC microfiche collection (MFiche
8), and their ED numbers can be accessed
by searching the free ERIC database. Also, suggested Web-based curriculum materials
are listed in AU Library's Education
Subject Guide.
Practitioner Literature: Practitioner literature includes idea and activity books, items noted as containing reproducible activities (such as science laboratory experiments), books emphasizing practical teaching methods, and books on developing behavioral objectives and lesson plans. Additional books collected include insightful teaching anecdotes/tips as well as those that contain suggestions for parents and beginning school administrators.
Audiovisual Materials and Other Nonprint Media: These include a variety of formats, including videotapes and computer software, and are located in Media Services on the lower level. Math manipulatives and other such materials are located in the CMC within the elephant shelving units.
Larissa Gerstel Critical Literacy Collection
Items from this collection may be checked out by American University affiliates. Others are welcome to use materials on site. To learn more about the history of this collection and the work of SETH alumna Larissa (Rozek) Gerstel, please visit this site.
Juvenile Literature: This 2,000+ collection
of multicultural juvenile (children's and young adult) literature supports the School of Education, Teaching and Health's mission to introduce its students (and their eventual pupils) to issues of social justice and global understanding through the framework of critical literacy.
Fiction and nonfiction works are shelved in the CMC
by their assigned Library of Congress call number. Children's
and young adult fiction mostly are shelved at the PZ 7 call
number. Nonfiction call numbers will differ depending on subject matter.
CMC Reference Collection
Items from this collection may be used on site.
Curriculum Frameworks: Curricula for District of Columbia, State of Virginia and Montgomery County (Maryland) public schools are located in the CMC Reference Collection. See the binders for grade level, subject matter and school system.
Reference Materials: Core teacher education reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes), guides and bibliographies for
juvenile literature and their use in the classroom are available for consultation. Note: The majority of education reference books are located on the library's first floor in the main Reference Collection.
Tests in Microfiche: (1975-) are located on microfiche (MFiche 54) in Periodicals along with annual annotated print indexes. Duplicate indexes are available for consultation in the CMC Reference Collection.
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