staff training on role of school libraries in common core school

1. School Libraries and the
Common Core
Peggy Milam Creighton

2. American Association of School
Librarians’ ground-breaking
publications:
• Empowering Learners (2009) and
• Standards for the 21st Century
Learner in Action (2009)
• Describe the information literacy
standards for 21st century students
and the dispositions that further
define them

3. AASL Common Beliefs
• “Reading is a • …thinking skills…
window… enable… learn on their
• Inquiry provides a own.
framework… • Learning…social
• Ethical context
behavior….must • School libraries are
be taught essential...”
• Technology skills
are crucial…
• Equitable
access…

4. What CC is………… and is not
Common Core IS: Common Core is Not:
• Rigorous, H.O.T. • Teaching in isolation
• Inquiry-based • Teaching to the test
• Universal Design for • Teaching from a textbook
Learning formatted • Doing “your own thing”
• Evidence-based • “Mile-wide and inch deep”
• Frequent assessment
• Formative and summative
assessments
• Theme-based
• Instructing within the
framework

5. Framework for Teaching
Charlotte Danielson
• High • Goal-setting
Expectations • Action-planning
• Peer coaching • Reflection on progress
• Professional • Sharing with
learning colleagues
• Inquiry approach
• Self-evaluation
• Professional
community
• Model
classrooms

6. Universal Design for Learning
• Multiple means of • Plan for meeting all
representation, needs
expression, and • Multiple learning
engagement styles
• Multiple methods of • BEING FLEXIBLE
acquiring AND DIGITAL!
information
• Alternatives for
demonstrating
learning
• Removing barriers
through technology

7. UDL Prezi
• http://prezi.com/zvehbf95tho8/universal-design-for-
learning/

8. Reading + Critical
Thinking=Enduring Understanding
• Critical thinking • Wondering, investigating,
is a researcher’s gathering information,
skill building knowledge,
seeking additional
sources, developing
comprehension, sharing
information

9. No more teaching to the
test!
• It is ALL on the test!

10. No New Textbooks!
Textbooks become reference
materials
Instructional materials are
books and videos,
magazines, websites—
Library resources!!

11. Books and media are THE
instructional materials
Books at or ABOVE grade level
Videos at or ABOVE grade level
Magazines and newspapers
Subscription resources*
Galileo
Cobb Virtual Library has ebooks,
magazines, newspapers, primary
sources, and MUCH more

12. What does this mean?

13. Students construct knowledge
• Build knowledge from sources rich, deep, wide
• Teachers scaffold understanding with a variety of
theme-based materials until students become “experts”
on subject
• Must gather information: who, what, when, where, why
about a subject
• Students create a product using social technology for
documentation and peer assessment
• Students cite evidence of their comprehension on
assessment

14. Teachers scaffold
instruction
Researching Creating products
Graphic organizers Collaborative teamwork
Note-taking All technology-based!
KWL charts
Modeling
Questioning
Comparing/contrasting
Reflection
Summarizing
Frequent feedback
Explicit instruction

15. All Teachers Implement
Research-based Best
Practices
Large group mini Planning/preparat
lesson ion, environment,
Small group and instruction, prof.
individual responsibilities
conferencing Community of
Scaffolding learners
strategies Community of
Differentiation professionals
4 domains:

16. Reading strategy vocabulary
from CCGPS:
“orally, expression, accuracy,
repeated reading, reader’s
theater, echo reading, radio
reading, choral reading, tape-
assisted, reading partner,
reading purpose and
understanding, self correct, word
recognition”

17. Assessments are informational
writing
• May take several days to
complete
• Students are given materials and
follow same task as in classroom
but without scaffolding from
teacher
• Emphasis is on evidence from
text

18. School libraries will be
CRUCIAL for providing
many of the
instructional materials!!

19. “As students strive to
meet the rigor of the
standards, certified
school librarians will
play an essential part in
ensuring that 21st-century
information literacy skills,
dispositions,
responsibilities and
assessments are
integrated throughout all
curriculum areas.” American
Association of School Librarians

20. I put on my “researcher” hat to
find some resources for you
Introduction • Find a Book GA
School Libraries • Elementary
21st Century Standards Curriculum Map
CC Math • Sample 1st grade
Elementary CC lesson
Resources • Sample 5th grade
Georgia CC
GA Race to the Top

21. References
American Association of School Librarians. Standards for the 21st
Century Learner. Retrieved from
http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandard
s/standards
American Association of School Librarians Position Statement on
Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards.
Retrieved from
http://www.ala.org/aasl/aaslissues/positionstatements/collegecar
eerstandards
CAST (2008) Universal design for learning guidelines 1.0.
Wakefield, MA: CAST. Retrieved
from http://www.cast.org/publications/UDLguidelines/version1.ht
ml
Common Core Georgia Performance Standards. Retrieved from
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-
Core/Pages/default.aspx
Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice: A framework
for teaching (2nd edition). Alexandria, VA: Association for
Supervision and ...

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