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Background | Posthole Courses
| Rubrics | Project Exemplars
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Background 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: Information
Literacy 1997- Present §
District 207: Information
Literacy Goals §
Maine West Information Literacy Model “Trail of the
Warrior” powerpoint Post Hole
Courses §
English 1 §
English 2 §
Health §
Government §
Oral
Communications §
Physical
Science §
Physics/Chemistry §
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. Grade Level Organizers
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Unit Planner Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Tools for: 1. Defining 2. Locating 6. Evaluating Rubric and Assessor Bubbling
Directions Turn it in.com First Time Users Turn it in Return Users TOP Adapted
and reformatted by G. Haan, web
page originally created by K. Wolfe,
Maine East, and R. Retrum, Maine South. |
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