Teaching+and+Learning

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http://www.north-scott.k12.ia.us/na/Library/index.html

Teaching of the Curriculum Based on the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner The 5 elementary librarians have spent a day and a half writing the curriculum for the district library program K-12. We have chosen to align with the new AASL Standards, and have made it through the first three standards--choosing the benchmarks we feel are expected of students at the grade ranges given, relative to our district. Once we have completed this step for the fourth standard, we will go back and further narrow the scope of the benchmarks to remove repetition. We felt that several benchmarks were repeated under different standards, with only subtle wording differences. We don't want our district standards to be a lump of benchmarks differentiated by semantics, so some weeding and combining will occur. After that point, we will consider the objectives, although likely rename it something closer to dispositions to explain what it "looks like" to meet that standard.

Then, we will use Google Docs to share documents we use to support the standards. This will both make us experts in Google Docs and keep us from constantly reinventing the wheel. Our intention is that the library curriculum will stand as a document to support the need for a full time teacher librarian in every building, and explain what a professional in that position could/should be accomplishing.