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School librarians lead through technology integration. School districts should support technology integration by developing infrastructures to support their success. Finally, project-based experiences with feedback provide the best opportunities for teaching educators how to implement technology.
The school library professional as leader, instructional partner, information specialist, teacher, and program administrator is critical for teaching and learning in today’s schools. The school librarian leads in building 21st-century skills by collaborating with classroom teachers to design engaging learning tasks that integrate key critical thinking skills, technology and information literacy skills with subject area content. In addition, the school librarian provides a library program that contains multiple instructional avenues and resources in various formats for the authentic application of information literacy skills.
As these Common Core Standards are implemented by the states, AASL stands ready to participate in the process. A task force has been charged with preparing a crosswalk from the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner to the Common Core Standards. This document will guide our members as they collaborate with classroom teachers. We encourage our members to examine the Common Core Standards and be involved at the state and local level in their implementation.
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As these Common Core Standards are implemented by the states, AASL stands ready to participate in the process. A task force has been charged with preparing a crosswalk from the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner to the Common Core Standards. This document will guide our members as they collaborate with classroom teachers. We encourage our members to examine the Common Core Standards and be involved at the state and local level in their implementation.
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School libraries are in the center of an information explosion. Along with unprecedented access to previously unavailable sources, a great deal of online information is neither accurate nor valuable. With this explosion, students need help more than ever learning how to navigate and evaluate what they find. A teacher librarian is an information professional, responsible for teaching future generations of information users how to access, evaluate, integrate, originate, and use information safely, legally, and ethically. The teacher librarian also provides professional development to staff in these areas. This is the curricular domain of the teacher librarian and an area of special expertise acquired while earning their second credential in library medias services. No other teaching credential area focuses on these special skills.