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Learning and Teaching


The Instructional Professional Standards Committee has worked to find correlations between the Virginia Standards of Learning and AASL/ AECT National Standards for Information Literacy. 

Listed below are links from school library sites throughout Virginia that have developed strategies and listed resources to address the teaching of both the Virginia SOL and the National Information Literacy Standards.


Learning and Teaching Resources for Library Media Specialists:


Linking Libraries & Academic Achievement - The Virginia Department of Education has developed the Linking Libraries and Academic Achievement Project that matches Virginia 's Core Standards of Learning (including Virginia's Computer Technology Standards) with the National Information Literacy Standards. This document also references the Virginia Technology Plan. The goal of this initiative is to provide guidance to school library media specialists in the development of best practices for teaching and learning. The resource documents identify skills that students need in order to be successful in meeting the Virginia Standards of Learning. It also provides strategies and activities that integrate technology into the curriculum and fosters the development of literacy skills that will enable students to become discriminating and efficient users of information.
 
  • Project Overview
  • Instructional Materials - This site includes navigational charts by grade level and core subject areas. The navigational charts show the SOL links to information retrieval skills, library media strategies, sample activities, and resources.
  • Scope and Sequence - This site is in the Excel format and can be sorted by grade level, subject area, SOL, NILS, and C/T Standards.
  • Integration Tracker - This document allows librarians to keep a log of cross-curricular instruction. Data can be gathered by teacher name, SOL taught, and methods used.


Lesson Plans:




Curriculum Guides:

  • Hanover County Library Media Curriculum Guide - The library media specialists of Hanover County have created a curriculum guide for teaching the National Literacy Standards in conjunction with the Virginia Standards of Learning. The guide is divided by grade levels, National Literacy Standards strands from Information Power, and literacy skills teaching objectives. Hanover County librarians have also developed a checklist of information literacy objectives for each grade level. 

This page is maintained by the Instructional Professional Standards Committee.  Please send comments or suggestions to Committee Chair.



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Last Updated: Saturday, October 24, 2009