How to Lead the Info Lit Band

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How to Lead the Info Lit Band

• Enid Davis
• Library Director
• The Harker School

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Drum this into your head!

• Information literacy skills must be integrated
  into the curriculum in all subject areas and on
  every grade level.
• You can LEAD this effort, but you cannot BE this
  effort.

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Planning the band

• Know what you are talking about Information
  Literacy Essential Skills for the Information
  Age.
• Know what info lit skills look like Standards
  and Guidelines for Strong School Libraries.
• Find a research methodology The Big6

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Info lit is a very broad term

• Actually, it covers your entire library program
  and much that is taught in other classes!
• Break it down into specific, mostly measurable
  goals in language teachers can understand.

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Start by talking it up

• Hi, teacher! How are all those research projects
  working for you?

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You mean to tell me

• Those kids dont know whats important to include
  in a three paragraph paper?
• You wish you had an inkling of what they should
  have learned last year in 5th grade?
• Those high school kids dont cite resources on
  science papers!

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Have I got an idea for you!

• Wouldnt you just love a scope and sequence for
  research skills?
• Well, Ill get back to you!

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Talk with the IT teacher

• Would you like to join the hottest trio in
• town?
• 1. Teacher content
• 2. Librarian research
• 3. IT teacher new tools

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Go straight to your supervisor!

• What sad stories I have heard from the teachers
  trying to do research projects!

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Boss, I would like permission

• to start an Information Literacy Committee that
  will discuss the best way for our school to teach
  21st-century
• research and creative problem-solving skills.

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Try to get an administrator

• to join the committee..

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The Committee.

• Introduces administrators, teachers and students
  to your research methodology, the standards,
  skills, and indicators of your continuum, and
  assessment tools.
• You do this through workshops, orientations,
  department meetings, collaboration projects,
  library curriculum, email, newsletters, displays,
  etc.

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Info lit is like doing the Cha-Cha

• First you do a workshop so that leads to a
  collaboration so that leads to another
  collaboration which leads to your telling your
  boss how well its going which leads to more
  time given for a faculty
• meeting demo which leads to another
• idea you have which leads to more

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Which Leads to Inviting Youto Lead Your Own
Parade