Standards and Rubrics for School Library Programs
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AASL Standards lesson plan template with dropdown menus
Sharon Fox from Tuxedo Park, a K-12 school librarian, has to do two full sets of lesson plans every week so...she developed this Google spreadsheet with dropdown menus with all the Standards. Sharon Fox K-12 Library Media Specialist, Tuxedo Union Free School District sharonhesper@gmail.com AASL Learning Standards and Program Guidelines (Fall 2017) Rather than quantitative standards that promote compliance with an inflexible and minimal list, school librarians need the dispositions of deep commitment and inquiry required by continuous program assessment and advocacy with stakeholders. AASL offers several tools for program evaluation:
7/25/2016:
AASL approved a new position statement in support of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Definition of Effective School Library Program. http://essa.aasl.org/ They also updated these position statements http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/resources/statements: |
MASSACHUSETTS STANDARDS:
RUBRIC for Evaluating School Library Programs
- Massachusetts Recommended PreK-12 Information Literacy Standards, MSLA 2009. (60 pages)
- Abridged STANDARDS: Intro, Benchmarks, References;
- Appendix II: Alignment of MSLA PreK-12 Information Literacy Skills with MA Technology Literacy Standards and Expectations and AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
RUBRIC for Evaluating School Library Programs
- Model School Library Program Rubric, MSLMA 2002
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