Resources for School Library Media Program Development

Standards & Guidelines

American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. ISBN 0-8389-3470-6

Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning includes the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning that will help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with the guidelines and principles that will help you create a dynamic, student-centered program. The books' underlying concepts will guide you in:

Helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders

Joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and non-print resources

Designing authentic learning tasks and assessments

Defining your role in student learning.

Available from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).

American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. ISBN 0-8389-3471-4

To assist you in collaboration and to bolster advocacy for your program, the new standards are also available separately in a companion publication, Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. This inexpensive publication is designed for distribution to your partners in information power--teachers, principals, parents, boards, and administrators. Available from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).
PDF file of Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: Standards and Indicators is available for distribution under a Creative Commons License.

Content Knowledge - 4th edition
www.mcrel.org/compendium/kSkillsIntro.asp

New edition of the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning's (McREL) online compendium of standards and benchmarks for K-12 educators

Haycock, Ken, ed. Foundations for Effective School Library Media Programs . Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. ISBN 1-56308-720-0 (cloth), 1-56308-368-X (paperback)

The 39 articles in this collection, reprinted from recent issues of Emergency Librarian (now Teacher Librarian ), discuss learning theories, flexible scheduling, new technologies, thematic units, new partnerships, etc.

International Society for Technology in Education. National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Connecting Curriculum and Technology. Eugene, Ore.: ISTE, 2000.

The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of ISTE and a consortium of partners and co-sponsors, including AASL. To order call 800-336-5191; http://cnets.iste.org/students

Examples of State Standards and Guidelines: