Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Overview:  When library media specialists play a collaborative, instructional role alongside the classroom teacher, the result can be a statistically significant impact on student performance. The effective library media specialist plays a four-fold role: as a teacher of information literacy, skills and technology; as an instructional partner with classroom teachers; as an information specialist in acquiring and evaluating information from both print and electronic sources; and as a program administrator. All of these roles make the library media specialist a key member of the larger teaching community that centers on student learning.  This 10-part series is directed towards the professional development of the library media professional, the classroom teacher, and their intertwined relationship in promoting student academic success.

“Best Practices in School Library Media Programs” individual titles:

• Program 1:  What the Research Says

• Program 2:  Teaching and Learning

• Program 3:  Information Access and Delivery

• Program 4:  Program Administration

• Program 5:  Communicating the Program

• Program 6: 

  • Part 1A - So How Am I Doing? Professional Assessment

  • Part 1B - So How Am I Doing? Professional Assessment Continued

• Program 7:  Teaching Through Student Research

• Program 8:  Collaboration for Middle & High School Research

• Program 9:  Creating a Culture of Reading

• Program 10: Dealing with Thorny Issues: Copyright and Intellectual Freedom

30 hours of online modules directed towards the professional development of the library media professional, the classroom teacher, and their intertwined relationship in promoting student academic success.

NSDC Standards for Staff Development

Context Standards

Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district. (Learning Communities)
• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership)
• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources)

Process Standards

Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement. (Data-Driven)
• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact. (Evaluation)
• Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based)
• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (Design)
• Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (Learning)
• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration)

Content Standards

Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality Teaching)

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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