There are multiple lesson plans for beginning, intermediate and advanced searchers are aligned with Common Core Standards and both AASL and ISTE information and technology literacy standards.
School librarians have the resources, training and knowledge to help us make those meaningful connections between the Common Core Standards and our students’ interests and lives.
Here’s why you need your school librarian now more than ever:
Your librarian can help you generate collaborative projects for your students that incorporate both information literacy and the Common Core Standards.
Your school librarian can help you develop lessons for your students that focus on both content objectives and technology objectives.
When students find a book that gets them excited, they are more likely to pick up another book.
Your school librarian can help match your students’ interests with the right books, and he or she can help you incorporate more books into your curriculum to help support student learning.
This first point is essential to meeting the standards and objectives that CCRS requires.
Is the library media center climate-controlled so that materials and equipment will not be damaged by high heat and humidity, and so that it can be used for activities during the summer?
Are library media and information technology skills taught as part of content areas rather than in isolation? Are the information literacy skills of evaluating, processing and communicating information being taught as well as accessing skills?
These points are difficult to implement on a block schedule. Teachers have "no time" to sign-up for classes because they're trying to cram in all their objectives for their disciplines.