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CAN I HELP YOU? How a Library Media Specialist Can Help with Teaching Your Reading Core Content

CAN I HELP YOU? How a Library Media Specialist Can Help with Teaching Your Reading Core Content presented by Amy Loyall Library Media Specialist LaRue County High School Hodgenville, Kentucky. Yesterday . . . A media specialist was usually called a librarian.

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CAN I HELP YOU? How a Library Media Specialist Can Help with Teaching Your Reading Core Content

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  1. CAN I HELP YOU? How a Library Media Specialist Can Help with Teaching Your Reading Core Content presented by Amy Loyall Library Media Specialist LaRue County High School Hodgenville, Kentucky

  2. Yesterday . . . A media specialist was usually called a librarian. Their role was seen as a “keeper of the books”. There was little or no interaction between classroom teachers and librarians.

  3. Today . . . Media specialists keep not only books but electronic items such as database subscriptions, e-books, etc. Media specialists form partnerships with classroom teaching to enhance classroom learning. The role of the media specialists has evolved from being the “keeper of books” to working with students and teachers to guide them through the process of selecting , evaluating and using a variety of sources. Media specialists are expected to know the school’s curriculum and come up with ways to assist teachers in implementing it.

  4. My goal with this project was to integrate information literacy skills into the English reading curriculum. Teaching information literacy skills by themselves without integration is not as effective as showing students how to apply these skills to a range of subject areas (Burk 40). The English curriculum has a natural affinity with information literacy skills (Hackman 6).

  5. Why are information literacy skills important? Information literacy skills are skills that help students work with information. These can include such things as internet search strategies, website evaluation or even using the table of contents in a book. According to a LCHS teacher survey, 90% of teachers feel that students have not mastered the ability to select, evaluate and use information appropriately and effectively. With the numerous changes that occur in technology students need good basic information literacy skills to address whatever changes occur.

  6. Core Content and National Standards Collaborative lessons must be planned according to Kentucky Core Content but there is also a information literacy skills curriculum, American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st Century Learner that also needs to included. Working together the teacher and library media specialist can decide how the information literacy skills can be integrated into the core content and what lessons, resources and assessment are needed to accomplish this. The key is to get students to apply information literacy skills to any curriculum they encounter. To see if these goals and objectives were met I did pre and post testing using TRAILS, PAS and STAR testing.

  7. An overview of the integration of information literacy skills into the freshman English curriculum: Library Orientation Of Mice and Men Project (Great Depression) Editorial Writing Elizabethan England Project (Romeo and Juliet) Culminating Project (Snake Research –Poison by Roald Dahl- Short Story Unit) Before starting each unit I try to incorporate information literacy skills such as website evaluation and search strategies as well as reading comprehension strategies such as graphic organizers. Collaborative Planning Worksheet In all projects I tried to emphasize the Big6 information problem solving skills.

  8. Community Education Project Working with a small group of students, we plan on designing and distributing a pamphlet that will help community members become better at searching for information on the internet. Students will meet several times to outline the content and structure of the pamphlet and then we will place the pamphlet at several locations throughout the community (the public library, city hall, etc.).

  9. Did the project meet with success?

  10. Tips for Collaboration between Teacher and Media Specialist Communication Make collaborative lesson work with standards Information Literacy Skills should not taught separately Allow LMS to be part of assessing work We should strive for inquiry-based collaborative lessons

  11. Plans for the future: I hope to work with other teachers, integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum. I am going to construct an information literacy skills curriculum for all grade levels and work with teachers to implement the curriculum through the course of the school year.

  12. WORKS CITED Burk. “Don’t Hesitate, Just Collaborate!” Library Media Connection Nov./Dec. 2007: 40-41. Print. Hackman, Mary H. Library Information Skills and the High School English Program. Englewook, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Print.

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