CURRICULUM: CONNECTIONS AND COMMON GROUNDAllison MackleyHershey High SchoolNovember 2014

A Peek Into the Process

Building a Foundation

Defining and Refining the Plan

Envisioning the Future

BUILDING A FOUNDATION2007 - 2008

Start Small

Academic Culture

Accessibility

Communication

Create Connections

Building on Current Relationships

Finding Common Ground

Reinventing Library Orientation

Curriculum Without Students

Information Literacy Instructional Timeline

Goals: Empower students to become effective information problem solvers, discerning readers, and successful life-long

learners. Provide students with the resources and skills that will be needed in today’s information-based society.

Information literacy skills and strategies cannot stand in isolation; therefore, library lessons are integrated with academic subjects across the curriculum throughout the year. This collaboration with content area teachers promotes the students’ development towards enhancing and expanding upon the lessons and topics taught elsewhere in the school. The library experience should supplement the objectives of each content area as students refine information problem solving skills and increase technology-for-learning proficiency. Students build on previous learning and benefit from increased academic success by refining their skills and developing the ability to think carefully, critically, and creatively about the world around them.

The scope and sequence provides teacher-librarians with the structure needed to plan for students’ library experiences, thus ensuring an exposure to the range of information literacy and library-specific skills needed for life-long learning.

Plugging in the Standards

Concepts for Life-long Learning

Existence of Libraries and Librarians

Essential Nature of Information Literacy Skills

Standards

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

Pennsylvania Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening Standards

Plugging in the Standards continued

Skills and Procedural Knowledge

Scope and Sequence

Resources Consulted AASL – Standards for the 21st Century Learner Ephrata School District: K – 12 Information

Literacy and Technology Skills Curriculum Pittsburgh Public School: Information Literacy

for Life-long Learning Upper Merion School District: K-12 Library

Curriculum

Hit and Miss

Too Many Targets

Consistency

Equal Access to Instruction

Systemic Implications

DEFINING AND REFINING THE PLAN2008 - 2014

Core Subjects: English, Science and Social Studies

Supports Director of Curriculum and

Instruction Principal Department Coordinators Department Members Curriculum Mapping Process Curriculum Consultant Technology

Barriers Collaborative Planning Time Urgency to Cover Curriculum PSSA Tests Keystone Tests Culture of Independence Teaching Spaces Technology

Science: Biology – Advancing Genetic Applications

PA Standards

Collins Writing

Technology Integration

Project Outline

2008 -

2009 Implement

Librarian as Instructor

Phase Out

2009 -

2012 Keystone Tests

2012 –

2013 Curriculum Review

2013 -

2015

English: 9th Grade - Social Survival

PA Standards

Upcoming Keystones

Embedded Research Skills

Librarian as Resource

Project Outline

2009 -

2010Consistency and Equal Access

Resource Sharing

Librarian as Instructor

Librarian as Co-teacher

2010 -

2012 Librarian as Consultant

Project Revision

2013 -

2014 Curriculum Review

2015

11th Grade English: American Dream

Research Resulting from Of Mice and Men

Ownership of Topic

Self-selection from a Variety of Research Strategies

AP English: Literary Analysis

Multimedia Presentation

Variety of Presentation Tools

Attention to Intellectual Property

Social Studies: Civics – Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Course Creation

Response to Proposed KeystoneLibrary Model Curriculum

Project Outline

2011 -

2012Consistency and Equal AccessLibrarian as Instructor

Project Revision

2012 -

2014 Continued Refinement

2014

Social Studies: World History – Divided by Districts/Rescued by Rivers

Combined I & II

Model Library Curriculum

Skills vs. Content

Shared Rubric

2012 -

2013Consistency and Equal Access

Library as Instructor

Balanced Literacy

2013 -

2014 Project Revision

2014

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE2015 and Beyond

Mapping Our Way: Elementary School K-12 Department Writing Team

Summer 2013 2013 – 2014 Implement and Refine

Unit Maps Course Essential Question Unit/Topic Unit Essential Question PA Core Standards Concepts Skills Content Vocabulary Resources Formative/Summative Assessments Key Lesson Questions

Everything New- Middle School

Librarian

Academic Support Team

PLCs

Articulation

12th Grade English: Research Rotation Choice of 4 Electives

Film Studies Science Fiction Creative Nonfiction Words That Changes the World – Literature of Peace,

War, and Social Justice

First Semester

Written Presentation

Second Semester

Multimedia Multimedia Presentation

Foundations of Ethical Research

Rationale

• Empower Students

• Effective Information Problem Solvers

• Discerning Readers

• Successful Life-long Learners

• Apply Critical Thinking Skills in Collecting, Organizing, Evaluating, and Using Information

CONTACTAllison Mackley

amackley@hershey.k12.pa.us

717-508-2259

Image Credits

Bertalan Szuros – Timeline: Minutes Nomadic Lass – Dream Big Daniela Hartmann –

Close Connection – Verbundenheit Rennett Stowe – Wall Plug James Wheeler – Yoho Road Mararie –

darts at the biennale (jacob dahlgren)

Journal of Cell Biology - Vol.193 Issue 1-toc1

Chris – Diversity Clucks

Rita M – American Dream Gioia De Antoniis – Our Armor Neil R – Supreme Court – Sepia Praveen Selvam – Indus River Paul Papadimitriou – Requests. Josef.stuefer – Birth Fotografeleen –

Research Before Producing a Video