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The school library program aims to help students and staff effectively use ideas and information. The school librarian teaches students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skilled researchers, and ethical users of information. They also facilitate the implementation of college and career readiness standards and encourage an inquiry approach to learning by finding creative ways to collaborate with teachers.
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- 2. The mission of the school library program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The school librarian empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skilled researchers, and ethical users of information.
- 4. Experts In: ● Ethical ● Productive ● Efficient ● Effective Information Use
- 5. ● Integration of Technology ● 21st Century Skills o Collaboration o Critical Thinking o Communication o Creativity
- 6. ● Scaffold Instruction K - 12 ● Lessons to create Lifelong Information users & producers. ● Reading Ambassadors ● Support building/district initiatives in our instructional practices. H
- 7. Winfield Public Library ● Tote-A-Book ● Information Resource Sharing Regional Library Meetings
- 8. ● PLC Team ● KASL District Officer/Promotions Chair ● Lowell hosted the District II workshop
- 10. Facilitate College & Career Readiness Standards Implementation Encourage Inquiry Approach to Learning Finding Creative ways to collaborate with teachers to best serve our students.
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- Beverly: thank you for allowing to celebrate School Library Month with you. We are here today to tell you about the great things that are happening in our school libraries. We’d like to introduce ourselves.
- Beverly: We have a vital role in schools - with the very important mission to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The school librarian empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skilled researchers, and ethical users of information.
- Beverly: Being an Instructional Partner is considered the first priority for the School Library Media Specialist (Empowering Learners). We must learn each teacher's curriculum requirements and make individual connections with teachers & their students to effectively partner. Each collaborative lesson will elevate student learning through the combination of information literacy and content area instruction. Let’s take a look at some examples at each level: Tab High School: Here I am partnering with Mrs. Curtis a spanish teacher for her La Comida class project. I covered fair use of digital media, when and how to utilize online images and provide instruction on the technical aspects of utilizing Google Presentation. One other particularly effective partnership with teachers is our newly offered “Plagiarism School”. Students identified as having plagiarized are assigned to the library’s Plagiarism School during seminar for one on one instruction on proper use of intellectual property. Bev: Middle School: Ruth: Elementary: In the elementary schools we have a fixed schedule and do not work with teachers and their students at the same time. this slide shows a student using a program we learned in the computer lab to complete a bookshare for his literacy class. In showing students a variety of programs and information sources, I can support the teachers work in the regular classroom and incorporate library skills as well.
- Ruth A vital role of the 21st Century Librarian is to provide guidance to teachers and students on ethical and productive uses of information avoiding copyright infringements and plagiarism. Technology plays a vital role as the primary distributor of information today and, as such, librarians must be up to date and well informed about methods of inquiry and technology tools. Primarily, we: Teach students and teachers how to find information that is accurate and understandable no matter their level of expertise. Encouraging the use of research materials including books, databases and electronic resources. Explaining when and how to use technology tools like Google, Multimedia tools (audio/digital). Coach teachers and model to students ethical and productive use of technology.
- Tabitha: The librarians are the district instructional coaches for technology. We are currently learning and sharing techniques to encourage the seamless integration of technology into the learning process. Special emphasis will be placed on the 4C’s of 21st Century skills - collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity. We are currently developing a District technology instruction plan. The TPAK model, (shown on the slide) is one of the models integrated in our action plan and we will be using with our teachers. ***Our goal is to move students and teachers from using to technology as mere substitution tools to higher level usage such as redefinition to design and reimagine tasks, to become and creators and innovators. ****
- Jody: Tabitha if you can see this - I got word from Jody she will not be there = I can do this part. I am in the middle of copying things off to read so I will take care of this part if that sounds good to you. OK Good deal! From teaching Digital Citizenship: Internet Safety, Cyberbullying, and Plagiarism to inspiring students to be creators of information using multimedia tools including (Vlogs, Blogs, Videos, Interactivity), the librarian as a teacher is a very active part of our work day. We have been meeting to scaffold our instruction K-12, making sure that we are in alignment to provide the most thorough instruction to our students. We are reading ambassadors. We must be able to gauge student reading levels, interest, and motivation to recommend a book that will stimulate a love of reading. We must be up to date on all of the current literature/authors/issues involving reading. We recruit our spouses to dress up like Clifford (Mr. MacCauley), we try to meet students where they are at (such as the high school twitter account @VikingReaders), we celebrate books and reading (William Allen White), and celebrate and reward students who reach reading goals. Through our instruction, we implement and support building initiatives such as Cornell Notes/ Closed Reading.
- Ruth: District librarians have met with the Winfield Public Librarians to coordinate programming and reading promotions. We have worked together with Tote a Book a lunchtime lending library set-up at the Dining Center. We have met with the public librarians and they have requested information on possible resources to purchase in support of CCR. Area librarians including colleges/public/school librarians will be meeting to collaborate on the most effective ways to meet our communities needs. Great for career and college readiness preparation - a connection whose time has come.
- Bev: We are actively involved in both local, state, and national PLC’s. From the PLC’s in our own building, to our district librarian PLC meetings, to our state and national library association affiliations. Our Own Ruth McCauley is an active leader at the state level through her role as KASL District II Officer and KASL State Level Promotions Chair. Tabitha Hogan is serving as the Kansas Computer Science Teacher’s Association President. Last month we hosted the District II Workshop which brought librarians from the south central region together at Lowell School. We had several informative sessions and some hands on experience with a variety of technology.
- Ruth organized Governor Brownback signing the Proclamation for April as School Library Month. We thank those of you who supported libraries through signing the right to libraries.
- Tabitha: Effective teacher-librarians constantly evaluate and adapt instruction to enhance learning. As we evaluate our own progress, we have identified three goals that focus on student learning. The first, aligned with the the Strategic Plan to Increase Student Achievement, is a vital to the success of our schools. Helping teachers identify appropriate primary source documents and reading will continue to be our focus. The inquiry approach to learning, a well-researched instructional strategy, really teaches students to think, be questioning, and innovative through understanding where and how to utilize information. We have been taking a course, suggested by Dr. Campbell, focused on marketing our services in collaborating, encouraging, and coaching even more teachers in technology integration. From this training, we have been working on an action plan and will implement it during the 2014-15 year that will help us to enhance our services to our schools. In addition to creative uses of technology in the classroom, we must constantly be elevating our partnership and classroom instruction to be more innovative and engaging to students. We thank you for this opportunity to share what we do and extend an invitation to visit us in our libraries. We also want to thank you for the support that you have shown toward school libraries, recognizing the value of the school librarian, and for your volunteerism as a school board member. Are there any questions for us?