| DATE |
READINGS FOR EACH CLASS
MUST BE READ BEFORE
CLASS BEGINS
HW=homework due the following
week |
| AUG/SEPT |
TOPIC AND READINGS and RESOURCES |
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Introduction to IRLS 581
School Librarians: From
the Past to the Present
Literacy Heritage Autobiography (click to view)
D2L Instruction will be provided during class
tonight.
Read:
Morris-Ch.1
Woolls- 1, 2
IP-1, 2,
3
E-Reserve Articles:
*Communicating what SLM
specialists do
*ALA: Information Power: Building Partnerships for
Learning
*The changing instructional role of the HS
LMS:
1950-1984
*Role of the School Library Media Specialist in
Site-Based
Management:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslposition.htm
*Sites2Good2PassUp4Librarians
*ALA: Position
Statement on the Role of the School Library Media
Program
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementrole.htm
*ALA: Position Statement on Preparation of School Library
Media
Specialists
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementpreparation.htm
*ALA: Position statement on the Role of the School Library
Media Specialist in
Site-Based
Management
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementroleschool.htm
Every homework assignment must be posted on the Mon.
following class at 9:00am for later online discussion.
HW-1:User Activities |
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School Library Partnerships and
Functions
Readings:
Morris-2, 3
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to review
E-Reserve Articles:
*ALA/AASL Standards
*AASL
Position on the Role of the School Library Media Center (URL under
HW-1)
*AASL Position Statement on the Role of the School Library
Media Specialist in Site-Based
Management:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslposition.htm
Tonight:
Group Facilitators: User
Activities
Due next week:
HW-2 Evaluation:Formal and Informal
Assessment |
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Evaluation
Readings:
Morris-14
Woolls-12
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to
review
E-Reserve:
*Evaluating your library media center
collection
*Communicating what SLM specialists do: The evaluation
process
*Collection Development Concerns
Handout with
information.
Tonight:
Group
Facilitators-Evaluation:Formal and Informal Assessment
Due next week:
HW-3 Collaboration with Teachers around Standards
/
Focus on the Standards |
| OCTOBER |
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Standards
Guest: Ed Kowalczyk synchronous online
Review ALA/AASL
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to review
E-Reserve articles:
*Collaborating to Meet Standards
*New Standards for
Digital Age Libraries
*The New AASL Guidelines and Standards will
Lead the Profession
QUIZ
Due next week:
HW-4 The Budget |
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Budget
Morris-5
Woolls-9,
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to
review
E-Reserve
*Budget basics
*Grant writing made
easy
*Making sense of your budget dollars
*Success with
budget proposals
HW-4 SLMC Budget
Discussion in groups-Online
Due next week:
HW-5 Staff/Management |
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Management and Staff
Readings:
Morris -6,
Woolls-5, 7
Information
Power-6
AASL
http://www.ala.org/aasl/positions/ps_schoolmedia.html
Select a site from Resources to review
E-Reserve articles:
*School library media
management skills
*School library media specialists: Essentially
administrators
*The patchwork quilt that is staffing
*School librarians as staff developers
*AASL Position
Statement on Staffing:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementappropriate.htm
Group Facilitators: Staff/Management
Due next week:
HW-6 Library Media Center Design |
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Facilities
Readings:
Morris-7
Woolls-6
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to
review
E-Reserve:
*School library: A design recipe for the
future
*Redesigning a library media center for the 21st
century
*Gotham's Grand Vision
*The Shape of Tomorrow
*Mr.
Morgan and his class reflect on the new school library
Library Media Center Design
Discussion in
groups-Online at 6:30 pm
Distribute Mid-Term Reflection
Due next week:
HW-7 Access to Information: Policies, Procedures and
Selection Criteria |
| NOVEMBER |
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Access to Information: Policies, Procedures, and
Selection Criteria
Readings:
Morris-8, 9
Woolls-8
IP-5 and
Appendix C
Select a site from Resources to rev
iew
E-Reserve:
*A Tough Act to Follow
*Censorship as we
enter 2000 or the millennium, or just next year: A personal look at
where we are.
*Censorship : An ongoing concern, Part I
*What
would you do? School library media centers and intellectual freedom.
*Copyright-What's right and what's not
Due next week:
HW-8 Create, plan, implement, evaluate instruction
based on information literacy and content |
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Administration
Morris-11-12
IP-continue
Select a site from Resources to review
E-Reserve articles:
*AASL Position Statement on
the School Library Media
Supervisor:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementschool.htm
Discussion in groups-Online
a
Due next week:
HW-9 Developing Literacy
NOTE: Since there is
more time for this short paper, you might consider making this the
formal one. |
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Teaching: Literacy, Information
Literacy
Woolls-10
IP-Finish
E-Reserves:
*What in the world is
happening with information literacy?
*Put some feeling into it:
integrating affective competencies into K-20 information
literacy
*AASL position on Resource Based Instruction:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementresource.htm
*AASL Position Statement on the Value of Independent Reading in
the School Library Media
Program:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalueindependent.htm
*The Information Literacy Movement of the School Library Media
Field: Preliminary Summary of the Research (MUST
READ)
http://witloof.sjsu.edu/courses/250.loertscher/modelloer.html
*ALA: Position Statement on the Value of Independent Reading in
the School Library Media
Program
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalue.htm
Mid-Reflection Due
Tonight:
Group
Facilitators: Developing Literacy
Due next week:
HW-10 Collaboration with Teachersor Changing Role
of
LMS
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| DECEMBER |
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Collaboration
Woolls-13-14
IP-continue
E-Reserve:
*The Education and Competencies of
School Library Media Specialists:
A Review of the
Literature
*Collaborating to Meet Standards
*Collaboration,
leadership, technology: expanding roles of shool library media
specialist
*Information-Literacy Collaboration: A Shared
Responsibility
*Position Statement on the Value of Library Media
Programs in
Education:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalue.htm
*AASL Position Statement on the Value of Library Media Programs
in Education:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalue.htm
*AASL Position Statement on the Role of the Library
Media Specialist in Outcomes-Based
Education
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalue.htm
*School Library Media Studies on
Achievement
http://www.iema-ia.org/IEMA119.html
*What Works:
Collaborative Cultures, Team Planning and Flexible
Scheduling
*ALA: Position Statement on the Value of Library Media
Programs in
Education
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatementvalue.htm
Group Facilitators-Collaboration
with
Teachers Around Standards (Focus on Teaching) or Changing
Role of the LMS.
Due next week:
HW-11- Building Support for Your LMC
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Other Considerations for the LMC and the
LMS
Readings:
Morris
-13
IP-Finish
E-Reserve:
*The case for public
awareness of school media programs
*Raising your profile
again
*Put yourself in your administrator's shoes
*The overdue
dilemma: Teaching responsibility in schools
*Integrating
curriculum in school library media programs through flexible
scheduling
*In the Dark: What's Keeping Principals from
Understanding Libraries?
*Media Impact Study Proposed
*AASL
position on flexible
scheduling:
http://www.ala.org/aasl/positions/ps_flexible.html
*AASL Position Statement on Flexible
Scheduling:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/positionstatements/aaslpositionstatement.html
*ALA:
Position Statement on Flexible Scheduling
http://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=Position_Statements&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15834
HW-12- Building Support for Your LMC
Discussion in groups-Online
Due next week:
HW-12 Technology |
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Technology
Guest Speaker: Ed Kowalczyk ONLINE AT
6:30 P.M. MST
Readings:
Morris-10
E-Reserve:
*Bringing the library into the
lab
*Collaboration, leadership, technology: expanding roles of
shool library media specialist
*New standards for digital age
libraries
*Successful K-12 technology planning
*The school
librarians role in the electronic age
*The role of the library
media specialist in school technology
*A Tough Act to
Follow
*Go to Technical Assistance Partnership Program (TAPP) at
http://www.setdatapp.org
Group Facilitators: Technology
Distribute Final Reflection
Posting of Web sites
may begin today |
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*Web page posting
Peer Review of Web pages
begins
*Web sites for service learning must be posted by
9:00 AM today. |
| MAY |
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Portfolio due
Final self-reflection
due |