ASSESSMENT

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ASSESSMENT PROGRESSIONWhere are they and How
do we move them forward?

• Lynn Barrett
• TFPL
• March 2007

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Who do you think you are and What is your job?
Facilities
ICT
Policy Planning
Human Resources
Resources
Finance
Sound Management Practices
Librarys role in the Learning process
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A catalyst for learning -
Inclusion
ICT as a teaching and learning tool
Information Literacy
The Library as central to learning
Reader Development
Collaboration
Sound management practices
Creating an effective learning environment
Understanding learning
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Looking at Learning
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Looking at learning
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Looking at learning
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Looking at learning
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Research Findings

• Process of note taking aids understanding
• Research consists of accessing sites, reading
  text, taking notes, writing up in own words
• Selecting and categorising relevant information
  difficult
• Synthesis the most difficult skill. Dont know
  what to leave out
• Heavy reliance on criteria and teacher direction
• Perception that the only difference between
  research at KS4 and Post-16 is the number of
  sources used

LSDA funded research with AVCE students, Dixons
CTC, 2004
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Assessing Skills Progression
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Personal Learning and Thinking Skills Framework
11-19

• Independent enquirers
• Creative thinkers
• Reflective learners
• Team workers
• Self-managers
• Effective participators

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Progression and impact - What skills do you
need?
School Libraries Work!
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Professional Standards for School Librarians

• Professional Values and Practice
• Collaboration with teaching colleagues
• Reflective practice
• Development of reading culture
• Positive contribution to whole school ethos
• Contribution to pupils personal development
  achievement
• High expectations of positive values, attitudes
  and behaviour

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Professional Standards for School Librarians

• Knowledge and understanding
• Curriculum
• Independent and lifelong learning skills
• Reading for pleasure
• Literacy development
• Current educational agenda
• Transition
• Inclusion
• Resource management
• ICT across the curriculum

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Professional Standards for School Librarians

• Teaching and learning
• Lesson planning and delivery
• Learning styles
• Differentiation
• Information literacy
• Assessment for learning
• Creative and effective learning environments
• Behaviour management
• Resource delivery
• INSET delivery

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Managing change

• The hardest thing to change is yourself.
  Mal Danks

The best way to predict the future is to
build it. Douglas Adams