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Partnerships for Information Literacy
Partnerships for a More Educated Georgia
K-12 Schools
Public Libraries
Academic Libraries
Colleges of Education
K-12 Partners
School AdministratorsCurriculum SpecialistsMedia SpecialistsTeachersParents
Public Libraries
Open, accessible
GALILEO passwords to all Georgians
Often collaborate with schools
Know the “homework side of life”
Academic Libraries
ACRL Information Literacy Standardshttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/objectivesinformation.htm
Instruction experience
GALILEO Tutorial creation
Colleges of Education
Teacher training programs
Media Specialist training programs
Research focus
Partnerships for a More Educated Georgia
GALILEO Georgia Performance Standards Georgia Department of Education Georgia Public Broadcasting Georgia’s K-12 Schools Georgia’s Public Libraries Georgia’s Academic Libraries Georgia’s Colleges of Education
K-16 Information Literacy Collaboration Goals
1. Create a program tied to GALILEO & Local Resources Familiarity = Comfort
Students Faculty
Coordinate Instruction Techniques Resources (print & electronic)
2. Embed IL in the Teaching Curriculum No more guessing!
K-12 standards will give librarians a good idea about the IL skill level of Georgia students
Less time teaching general research skills More time to focus on research
Subject-specific skills Drill-down techniques
3. Embed IL in Teacher Education Programs Teaches the importance of IL early on IL becomes a group effort Graduate teachers willing to work with media
specialists as a team
4. Inform Veteran Teachers through IL Training & Outreach Most influential teachers are veterans
Can make any initiative sink or swim Educate veteran teachers on the importance of
IL Make it a group effort – not something else
that they have to do
5. Create (jargon free) K-16 standards Easy to incorporate into GPS and teacher
education curriculums Less room for error/misunderstanding Easy to educate students, teachers, and
especially parents
Examples of Current K-16 Collaboration Rochester Regional Library Council
http://www.rrlc.org/ Core Library and Research Skills Grade 9-14+
Document 7 steps
Question/Define; Plan/Pre-search; Collect/Gather; Read/Listen/View; Analyze/Sort; Produce& Present; Evaluate/Assess
Recommend grade for introduction and mastery of each skill
Examples of Current K-16 Collaboration Central Pennsylvania K-16 Information
Literacy Network http://www.libraries.psu.edu/gateway/k-
16collaboration/index.html Part of Statewide Collaboration Media Specialist Tool Kit for Implementing IL in
schools
Examples of Current K-16 Collaboration Institute for Library and Information Literacy
Education at Kent State http://www.ilile.org/
Academic Content Standards Checklists TRAILS Parent Toolkit for IL advocacy
Statewide Collaboration
Finding partners /Pooling our efforts
GALILEO
GALILEO is the tool that binds us together Strong support from GALILEO administration GALILEO Planet newsletter Potential voice in GALILEO Reference or
Electronic Collection Development subcomittees? Potential voice in K12 Advisory Committee? Potential role in GALILEO training workshops?
Outreach to GA Colleges of Education
Pilot projects get attention Work with TA’s - often the most flexible
instructors UGA: Certificate in University Teaching Create K-16 teaching tools for assignments :
Example: IL K-16 lesson plan checklistDraft version, based upon Ryan & Capra’s Information Literacy
Toolkit. (ALA, 2001) and ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2002).
Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives Programs:GSTEP: “Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program”
http://www.coe.uga.edu/gstep/
GOAL: Collaboration between teachers, administrators and college faculty to improve teacher prep programs
FOCUS:Shaping the teacher education curriculum: 9 subject-based curriculum committees
Supporting Induction Develop strategies to support teachers during their first 2
years of teaching
Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives Programs:PRISM: Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics
4 regions = university + surrounding counties:East Central/ Georgia Southern www.georgiasouthern.edu/prism/
Metro Atlanta: Georgia State http://education.gsu.edu/prism/
Northeast: University of GA: www.coe.uga.edu/prism/
Southeast: Armstrong Atlantic www.prism.armstrong.edu/
Opportunities: Monthly meetings Join ‘Learning Communities’, which team teachers from
schools and universities on specific projects or problems
Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives Programs:”Early College”
Outreach to non-traditional high schools:
Gateway to College Academy at GA Perimeter College
http://www.gpc.edu/~gpcgway/
High school + first two years of college for at risk students
Classic City High School (Athens)
http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/do/schoolView?id=3522
Alternative high school for at risk students
Georgia Department of EducationK12 Library Media Services
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/pandp/media/homepg.htm
Opportunities: Articles in their monthly “Media Matters” online
newsletter Presentations at their conferences Input in their information literacy projects
Challenges: Bureaucracy! Current director retiring very soon
GLA/GLMAGeorgia Library Association
Georgia Library Media Association
Joint committee on K-16 information literacy? COMO Collaborative presentations at Education conferences
Educause conference Jan 22-24, 2007 Atlantahttp://www.educause.edu/eli071
National GuidanceAASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information
Literacy
Charge: The joint AASL/ACRL Joint Committee on Information Literacy will focus on how to prepare K-20 students to be information literate and will provide a channel of communication to the respective divisions. In general, this joint committee will be a forum for sharing ideas on information literacy in K-20 environments and a source of professional development opportunities in this area.