Curriculum Committee
Karen French
Gloria Hinz
Sherry Martin
Courtney McGuire
Darby Paddock
Amanda Pata
Chris Profeta
Gloria Hinz
Sherry Martin
Courtney McGuire
Darby Paddock
Amanda Pata
Chris Profeta
Introduction
The Library Media Curriculum Guide is a document that has been created by a team of committee members from the local community, as well as Grosse Pointe School District administrators and dedicated media specialists. The purpose of this guide is to present revised content standards that connect National Library Standards, English Language Arts Common Core Standards, Michigan Technology Standards, sample lesson planning documents as well as sample assessments for units covered at each grade level. This updated curriculum guide is intended to increase the overall effectiveness of teaching the library standards and provide an instructional framework for equitable teaching and learning across the district.
The Library Media curriculum will continue to develop the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that lead to regular and enjoyable participation in the school library media program and its resources inside and outside its walls.
This is accomplished through a focus on the following four target areas:
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Grosse Pointe Public School Library Media Program is to provide a challenging learning environment that enables all students to develop skills and knowledge necessary to become self-directed, life-long learners, highly productive citizens, and contributors to a technological and diverse society.
PHILOSOPHY
The school library media center is a vital and integral hub of the school. In an age of information, acquiring information literacy skills and a commitment for lifelong reading and learning become paramount. In the school library media center, students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills as they use a variety of resources to meet the demands of today’s curriculum.
The principles for learning and teaching of school library media programs have been identified and developed by the Information Power Vision Committee. (Information Power58)
Information and technology skills are most meaningful when learned within a subject area, within an interdisciplinary unit, or within a unit which addresses an authentic, real-life need or problem. Students must be prepared to access, evaluate, select, and apply the appropriate information to meet their educational, personal, and recreational needs.
Students must be prepared to acquire materials and resources to meet their current and lifelong needs. They will need to know how to access, evaluate and choose from a constantly changing and growing reservoir of information for educational, personal, and recreational purposes.
ROLE OF LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST
School library media specialists are the professional, certificated staff members charged with the daily operation of the library media program at the school level. They have the primary responsibility for the major library media center functions (i.e., evaluation and selection; ordering and processing; utilization of media; organization of the library media collection; circulation of library media materials; production of original media; and management of instructional equipment). In the execution of these functions, library media specialists must assume several distinct roles, including:
Teacher
Instructional Partner
Information Specialist
Program Administrator
The Library Media curriculum will continue to develop the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that lead to regular and enjoyable participation in the school library media program and its resources inside and outside its walls.
This is accomplished through a focus on the following four target areas:
- Love of Reading
- Information Literacy
- Digital Citizenship
- Media Technology
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Grosse Pointe Public School Library Media Program is to provide a challenging learning environment that enables all students to develop skills and knowledge necessary to become self-directed, life-long learners, highly productive citizens, and contributors to a technological and diverse society.
PHILOSOPHY
The school library media center is a vital and integral hub of the school. In an age of information, acquiring information literacy skills and a commitment for lifelong reading and learning become paramount. In the school library media center, students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills as they use a variety of resources to meet the demands of today’s curriculum.
The principles for learning and teaching of school library media programs have been identified and developed by the Information Power Vision Committee. (Information Power58)
- Principle 1: The library media program is essential to learning and teaching and must be fully integrated into the curriculum to promote students’ achievement of learning goals.
- Principle 2: The information literacy standards for student learning are integral to the content and objectives of the school’s curriculum.
- Principle 3: The library media program models and promotes collaborative planning and curriculum development.
- Principle 4: The library media program models and promotes creative, effective, and collaborative teaching.
- Principle 5: Access to the full range of information resources and services through the library media program is fundamental to learning.
- Principle 6: The library media program encourages and engages students in reading, viewing, and listening for understanding and enjoyment.
- Principle 7: The library media program supports the learning of all students and other members of the learning community who have diverse learning abilities, styles, and needs.
- Principle 8: The library media program fosters individual and collaborative inquiry.
- Principle 9: The library media program integrates the uses of technology for learning and teaching.
- Principle 10: The library media program is an essential link to the larger learning community.
Information and technology skills are most meaningful when learned within a subject area, within an interdisciplinary unit, or within a unit which addresses an authentic, real-life need or problem. Students must be prepared to access, evaluate, select, and apply the appropriate information to meet their educational, personal, and recreational needs.
Students must be prepared to acquire materials and resources to meet their current and lifelong needs. They will need to know how to access, evaluate and choose from a constantly changing and growing reservoir of information for educational, personal, and recreational purposes.
ROLE OF LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST
School library media specialists are the professional, certificated staff members charged with the daily operation of the library media program at the school level. They have the primary responsibility for the major library media center functions (i.e., evaluation and selection; ordering and processing; utilization of media; organization of the library media collection; circulation of library media materials; production of original media; and management of instructional equipment). In the execution of these functions, library media specialists must assume several distinct roles, including:
Teacher
- Collaborates with students and other members of the learning community to determine learning and information needs
- Locates and uses materials to meet the needs of the community
- Understands and communicates the information the resources provide
- Knowledgeable about current research and findings on teaching and learning and skilled in applying its findings to a variety of situations—particularly those that call upon students to access, evaluate, and use information from multiple sources in order to learn, to think, and to create and apply new knowledge
- Curricular leader (i.e., participates on the instructional team)
- Constantly updates personal skills and knowledge in order to work effectively with teachers, administrators and other staff—both to expand their general understanding of information issues and to provide them with specific opportunities to develop sophisticated skills in information literacy, including the uses of informational technology
Instructional Partner
- Joins with teachers and others to identify links across student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a wide variety of print, nonprint, and electronic information resources
- Develops policies, practices, and curricula that guide students in developing the full range of information and communication abilities
- Works closely with individual teachers in the critical areas of designing authentic learning tasks and assessments and integrating the information and communication abilities required to meet content standards
- Provides training to other educators
Information Specialist
- Provides leadership and expertise in acquiring and evaluating information resources in all formats
- Brings awareness of information issues into collaborative relationships with teachers, administrators, students, and others
- Models for students and others the strategies for locating, accessing, and evaluating information within and beyond the library media center
- Masters sophisticated electronic resources and maintains a constant focus on the nature, quality, and ethical use of information available in these and more traditional tools
Program Administrator
- Works collaboratively with members of the learning community to define the policies of the library media program and to guide and direct all the activities related to the program
- Advocates for the library media program in support of the school improvement plan and provides the knowledge, vision, and leadership to steer it creatively and energetically in the 21st Century (collecting this data)
- Manages staff, budgets, equipment and facilities
- Plans, executes and evaluates the program to ensure its quality both at a general level and on a day to day basis
- Orders materials