Transcript Library Media Specialists Impact Achievement: What’s A Principal to Do? VAESP Conference November, 2006 PRETEST: My library media specialist… 1.

Library Media
Specialists Impact
Achievement: What’s A
Principal to Do?
VAESP Conference
November, 2006
PRETEST:
My library media specialist…
1. Is knowledgeable about content
area curriculum standards.
2. Actively participates in curriculum
development.
3. Promotes reading.
4. Meets, plans, and collaborates
with classroom teachers.
5. Teaches students how to access,
evaluate, and use information.
6. Trains teachers in the use of
information technology.
7. Promotes ethical and responsible
use of information.
8. Takes an active role in the
instructional program of the
school.
9. Effectively manages the library
collection and library program to
make it an integral part of the
school.
10. Positively impacts student
achievement.
Virginia Standards of
Accreditation
8 VAC 20-131-190
 Each school shall
maintain an
organized library
media center as the
resource center of
the school and
provide a unified
program of media
services and
activities for
students and
teachers…to
support the
instructional
program.
Information Power: Building
Partnerships for Learning
“The mission of the
library media program
is to ensure that
students and staff are
effective users of
ideas and
information.”
Information Literacy Defined…
The ability to
recognize a need for
information and to
access, evaluate, and
use that information
Statewide Studies: 1993 to Present
• Test scores improve in schools
– which have a school library staffed by a
licensed library media specialist and
assisted by adequate staff,
– in which the library has a strong collection
and adequate funding,
– in which the library media specialist
collaborates with teachers, teaches
information literacy skills, provides inservice for teachers in information
technology,
– in which library resources are available
outside of library walls via computer
networks.
Scores are higher when…
• A professionally trained, full-time,
certified library media specialist
leads the program.
• Adequate support staff is present.
• School library media collections are
strong in quantity, quality, and
variety.
• Students use the library media
center and its resources.
Scores are higher when…
• Students have access to resources
beyond the library media center.
• Library media specialists teach
information literacy skills to students.
• Technology is available.
• Library media specialists provide
information technology in-service for
teachers.
Scores are higher when…
• Library media specialists
collaboratively plan, teach, and
evaluate with classroom teachers.
• Library media specialists collaborate
with classroom teachers to integrate
information literacy instruction into the
content areas.
• Library media specialists take a
leadership role in the teaching and
learning that occurs in the school.
Summary of Common Findings
Library media
programs and library
media specialists
impact student
achievement!
School Libraries Work! Updated 2006 edition
What’s a Principal to Do?
What’s a Principal to Do?
Funding for collection development
Clerical staffing to allow library
media specialist to collaboratively
plan, teach, and evaluate with
classroom teachers
Scheduling (flexible when possible
to allow for best practice use of
library facility and services)
What’s a Principal to Do?
Understanding and vision of what
the library media program
contributes to school instructional
program
Modeling library use
Communicating to teachers the
importance of the library program
Examples of
Library Media Specialist
Actively Participating
in Instruction
Utilizing Library Media Specialists
in Curriculum Development and
Implementation
• Collaboration with classroom
teachers for instruction
• Involvement in curriculum level
meetings
• Reading across the curriculum
• Materials for the reluctant reader
• Design of motivational reading
programs
Connection of Library
Information Skills to
Classroom Instruction
Handouts:
2nd grade science SOL 2.8
3rd grade SOL—science, social
studies, language arts, and math
Utilizing the Library Media
Specialist in the Use of
Information Technology
• Evaluation and selection of
information technology
• In-service training for teachers in
electronic information resources
• Connection to appropriate
electronic information resources for
students and teachers
Sample Library Information
Resources to Support SOL
Math 2.19 The student will read the
temperature on a Celsius and/or
Fahrenheit thermometer to the
nearest 10 degrees.
KidsClick:
Web Search for Kids by Librarians
Sample Library Information
Resources to Support SOL
Social Studies 3.2 The student will
study the early West African empire
of Mali by describing its oral
tradition (storytelling), government
(kings), and economic development
(trade).
eLibrary
Sample Library Information
Resources to Support SOL
Science 4.3 The student will investigate and
understand the characteristics of electricity. Key
concepts include
a)
conductors and insulators;
b)
basic circuits (open/closed,
parallel/series);
c)
static electricity;
d)
the ability of electrical energy to be
transformed into heat, light, and mechanical
energy;
e)
simple electromagnets and magnetism;
and
f)
historical contributions in understanding
electricity.
SIRS Discoverer
Sample Library Information
Resources to Support SOL
English 5.5 The student will read and
demonstrate comprehension of fiction.
– Describe the relationship between text and
previously read materials.
– Describe character development in fiction
and poetry selections.
– Describe the development of plot and
explain how conflicts are resolved.
– Describe the characteristics of free verse,
rhymed, and patterned poetry.
– Describe how an author’s choice of
vocabulary and style contributes to the
quality and enjoyment of selections.
Kids InfoBits
The Library as a Focal Point
to Achieve Student Success
Dr. David V. Loertscher
Reading
Information Technology
Information Literacy
Collaboration
Student
achievement
increases as
library media
specialists take
an active role in
the instructional
program of the
school!
What’s a principal to do?
The Principal’s
Taxonomy of Library
Media Programs
Dr. David V. Loertscher
Also in your folder…
• Academic Success @ Your Library
(Virginia Department of Education)
• School Libraries: The Answer to the
Puzzle (Virginia Educational Media
Association)
• Your School Library Media Program
and No Child Left Behind (American
Association of School Librarians)
Audrey Church
Coordinator, School Library Media Program
Longwood University
Farmville, VA 23909
Phone: 434-395-2682
Email: [email protected]
Home page: http://www.longwood.edu/staff/churchap
Dr. Gerry Sokol
Coordinator, Educational Leadership Program
Longwood University
Farmville, VA 23909
Phone: 434-395-2687
Email: [email protected]
Home page:
http://www.longwood.edu/cehs/education/graduate_degree/educ
ational_leadership/index.htm