Goals of K16 Information Literacy College Perspective

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Goals of K-16 Information Literacy College
Perspective
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Create a program tied to GALILEO Local Resources

• Familiarity Comfort
• Students
• Faculty
• Coordinate Instruction
• Techniques
• Resources (print electronic)

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Embed IL in the Teaching Curriculum

• No more guessing!
• K-16 standards will give 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

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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

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IL Training Outreach for Working Teachers

• Educate veteran teachers on the importance of IL
• Most influential teachers are veterans
• Can make any initiative sink or swim
• Make it a group effort not something else that
  they have to do

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Create (jargon free) K-16 standards

• Easy to incorporate into GPS and teacher
  education curriculums
• Easy to educate students, teachers, and
  especially parents
• Less room for error/misunderstanding

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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

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Examples of Current K-16 Collaboration

• Central Pennsylvania K-16 Information Literacy
  Network
• http//www.libraries.psu.edu/gateway/k-16collabora
  tion/index.html
• Part of Statewide Collaboration
• Media Specialist Tool Kit for Implementing IL in
  schools

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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

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Parent Outreach

• Awareness
• Information versus storytellers
• Benefits
• For students and teachers
• For parents
• Concerns

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Bridging the Gap

• Teaching IL skills
• Building on IL skills
• Transferring IL skills
• Grade level
• Subject area
• What are we missing?

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Its all about partnerships!
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Partnerships for a more educated Georgia

• K-12 Schools
• Colleges of Education
• Public Libraries
• Academic Libraries

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Act locally!

• putting together a meeting of the minds.

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K-12 Partners

• School Administrators
• Curriculum Specialists
• Media Specialists
• Teachers
• Parents

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Colleges of Education

• Teacher training programs
• Media Specialist training programs
• Research focus

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Public Libraries

• Open, accessible
• GALILEO passwords to all Georgians
• Often collaborate with schools
• Know the homework side of life

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Academic Libraries Leadership

• Brainstorm!
• Talk to potential partners
• Leadership moves collaboration forward
• Use library contacts
• Use campus contacts

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Think globally!

• GALILEO
• Georgia Performance Standards
• Georgia Department of Education
• Georgia Public Broadcasting

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Act locally!

• to support collaboration for common goals
• to promote libraries and GALILEO

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for a more educated
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Statewide Collaboration

• Finding partners /Pooling our efforts

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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?

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Outreach to GA Colleges of Education

• Pilot projects get attention
• Work with TAs - often the most flexible
  instructors
• UGA Certificate in University Teaching
• Create K-16 teaching tools for assignments
• Example IL K-16 lesson plan checklist
• (This is a first, rough draft which borrows
  heavily from Ryan and Capras Information
  Literacy Toolkit Chicago American Library
  Association, 2001.)

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Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives ProgramsGSTEP
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

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Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives ProgramsPRISM
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/pris
  m/
• 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

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Bd of Regents P-16 Initiatives ProgramsEarly
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?id3522
• Alternative high school for at risk students

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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

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GLA/GLMA

• Georgia 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

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National Guidance

• AASL/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.