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Background Posthole Courses Rubrics Project Exemplars Student Toolkit Teacher Toolkit District 207's Information Literacy curriculum was developed over the course of several years. With the cooperation and hard work of many administrators and teachers the district put together an information literacy curriculum that dictates the effective use of technology and provides a framework for the research process. What follows is an overview of how District 207's Information Literacy Program was born.
District
207’s Information Literacy Rubric allows a district wide assessment
of the Information Literacy Program. The rubric measures student progress
in mastering research skills from grades 9-12. Grade level organizers
are used to identify skills that match the process evaluation. The expectation
is that 80% of all students will achieve a score of 3 or 4 in each category
at each grade level. The rubric is used to score student projects in
all anchor information literacy courses. District 207 tracks the scores
and the data is annually reported to the Board of Education. Students that are enrolled in anchor information literacy courses are required to complete an information literacy project that is assessed using the information literacy-scoring rubric. The projects have been developed by teachers to meet the needs of the existing academic content curriculum while satisfying the requirements of the information literacy model. In the future descriptions and exemplars of District 207 Information Literacy projects will be posted. This portion of the site is currently under construction, please check back in the future.
District
207 teachers have developed several tools to assist students in successfully
completing information literacy projects. These tools are designed to
structure student research activities to closely align with information
literacy rubric benchmarks. Students are expected to use these tools
to assist them in creating information literacy projects that follow
the District 207’s style manual requirements.
The
Toolkit provided for District 207 teachers has been adapted from Information
Literacy Toolkit (American Library Assoc. 2001). Included in this toolkit
are the Grade Level Planning Organizers that are to be used by teachers
when creating information literacy projects. The Grade Level Organizers
are designed to develop an awareness of the scope and progression of
information literacy skills from grades 9-12. Using the Planning Organizers
teachers can carefully connect the information literacy skills to their
content area and integrate learning activities that will cover information
literacy skills at each grade level. The teacher toolkit also includes
a variety of teaching tools that are applicable across grades and content
curriculum units.
Tools for: 1. Defining 2. Locating 6. Evaluating Additional
teacher toolkit forms: Adapted and reformatted by G. Haan, Maine West High School, January 12, 2006, from District 207 Information Literacy web page originally created by K. Wolfe, Maine East, and R. Retrum, Maine South. Additional adaptation and formatting, N. Mellendorf, Maine South High School, April 7, 2006. |
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