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.