AASL Standard 1: Use of Information & Ideas

School library media candidates encourage reading and lifelong learning by stimulating interests and fostering competencies in the effective use of ideas and information. They apply a variety of strategies to ensure access to resources and information in a variety of formats to all members of the learning community. Candidates promote efficient and ethical information seeking behavior as part of the school library media program and its services.

Project: I-Search

Summary: The I-Search is an approach to the research process that includes a learner-chosen topic and culminates in a project the learner can use to express the information that she has uncovered through the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of research materials. 

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Project: Order  

Summary: The order required students to choose an objective, create an order of materials to support the objective, prepare a presentation to justify selection choices, and create a checklist of each step of the ordering process.  

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Summary: The PDEP included the creation of goals and objectives to improve the media program, a clear statement of the media center's philosophy and mission statement, an explanation of how budgets, committees, and personnel will be managed, and a plan for evaluating the media program.  

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