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Trinkle, Catherine – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2009
The new "AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" offer significant potential for helping library media specialists tailor instruction to student needs. These standards are precise and clear, and they align themselves to reading strategies as well as language arts and content area standards. The new standards will also help strengthen lesson…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, School Libraries, Media Specialists, Library Instruction
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Bogel, Gayle – Knowledge Quest, 2009
In January 2009, the American Library Association (ALA) completed a ten-year reexamination of the core competences needed by professional librarians graduating from ALA-accredited institutions. The ALA's "Core Competences of Librarianship" encompass the basic knowledge expected of all graduates in all specializations. The core beliefs and policies…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Professional Associations, Librarians, Role
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Cox, Ernie – Knowledge Quest, 2010
Teaching the evaluation of information resources can be daunting for both students and educators. In an information environment in which resource types are ever-changing, how does the school librarian assess the evaluative skills of students? The assessments ought to reflect the malleable nature of online resources. To engage students in a…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, School Libraries, Research Skills, Expertise
Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2006
This column is a collaborative effort by library media specialists who write about the motivational strategies that have worked for them. Motivational strategies include ways to gain and sustain attention, increase relevance for learning information literacy skills, build confidence in students' developing research abilities, and promote a…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, School Libraries, Media Specialists, Information Literacy
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – School Library Media Quarterly, 1985
Identifies six successive stages in model of the library research process developed from the findings of study of high school seniors using library for two assigned research papers: initiating research assignment, selecting topic, exploring information, forming focus, collecting information, preparing to present. Assessment of the research process…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 1986
Describes some of the most active school library programs for introducing elementary and secondary school students to online searching. Highlights include searches performed by librarians and students; skills acquired by students (search strategy, choosing appropriate databases, accessing information online); frequently searched databases; and…
Descriptors: Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
Buckingham, Betty Jo, Comp. – 1984
In response to the requests of library media workshop participants who were queried during the 1982-1983 school year by the Iowa Department of Public Instruction about what would be most helpful to them in the area of library skills, this sampler of library media skills teaching ideas was produced. Ideas were solicited from practicing library…
Descriptors: Courseware, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Provides fully developed library media activities designed to be used in connection with specific curriculum units, including health, reading and language arts, and social studies. For each activity, the objectives of the exercise, resources, instructional roles of librarians and teachers, procedures involved, evaluation, and follow-up activities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Modules, Learning Resources Centers
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Walisser, Sharon – Emergency Librarian, 1985
Suggested strategy for teaching library research skills to K-7 students involves three developmental stages and nine sequential steps: identification of topic, webbing, selection of suitable materials, selection of needed information, recording sources of information, notetaking, outlining, preparation for presentation, presentation. Sample…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Instructional Design
Milam, Peggy S. – 2002
This book is a comprehensive guide to implementing the InfoQuest program in libraries, schools, and school library media centers. In the InfoQuest program, a research question is posed each week, and students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Information Literacy
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1984
This document lists the essential library, research, and reference skills to be mastered at each grade level from K to 12 in the Kentucky schools. This list was prepared in response to state legislation calling for the teaching and testing of essential skills in reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, and library, research, and reference skills…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
Gilliland, Donna – 1986
Designed to help students in grades kindergarten through 12 become proficient in library and information skills, this curriculum guide emphasizes the following information skill categories: (1) orientation to the library/media center; (2) reference and research; (3) production of informational media presentations in a variety of formats; and (4)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Resources Centers
Schrader, Susan – 1985
This curriculum guide is intended to help educators design strategies to introduce the concept of online database searching to high school students. The goals of database searching are clearly defined so they may be matched with the goals already established in existing curriculum areas. The teaching process involves explaining how to use a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Databases, High School Students, High Schools
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Herring, James E. – Electronic Library, 1987
Explores the possible uses of microcomputers in school libraries, including library administration and technical processing, communications, curriculum related databases, and online bibliographic services. The impact on students is discussed in terms of computer literacy and the acquisition of information skills. (CLB)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Databases, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Minnich, Nancy P. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Provides a detailed description of a pilot project designed to develop critical thinking and writing skills in secondary school students. Activities involved in the process include online searching, writing abstracts and research papers, developing bibliographies, and using word processing equipment. Related article appeared in June 1986 issue of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, High School Students, Learning Activities, Learning Resources Centers
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