Great set of standards

Barbara Stripling, Director of Library Services for the New York City School Library System, is amazing. Take a look at the work she and her team have done on her district's INFORMATION FLUENCY CONTINUUM

The attached document provides a framework for the instructional aspects of a library program. The framework is based on three standards that form the basis for the skills and strategiesessential for students to become independent readers and learners:
Standard 1: Using Inquiry to Build Understanding
Standard 2: Pursuing Personal and Aesthetic Growth
Standard 3: Demonstrating Social Responsibility

Barbara has my vote for heading the next revision of the AASL's Information Power.

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In response to an earlier blog entry, What Gets Tested, Gets Taught, Todd asks:

Wait, wait! Don't you think you have that backwards? You're putting the test BEFORE the content? Shouldn't you test what you have taught, not teach what you will test? So we're to teach to the test because we'd just screw things up otherwise?

Todd, let's hope that the test makers base their work on standards, So in a manner of speaking, yes, if you are teaching to the standards, you are also teaching to the test. At least with articulated standards, whether one likes them or not, you know what your students are expected to know and you to teach. The bigger questions is: who should be writing standards? teachers? politicians? academics? future employers?_________________________

If this blog entry looks different, it's because I am trying out a trial version of Ecto. So far, not so good...

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And now for a completely gratuitous graphic of Middle Jefferson Lake, Fall 2005, to see how Ecto handles graphics...

Comments

[Barry]

Teaching to the test is absolutely the way to go. IF the test is a valid, real-world assessment of knowledge and/or skill agreed upon and demonstrably valuable to the learner. Easy to say, hard to do. Music teaching is as close to it as I ever came. Telling a student "Play mvt one from the Bach 'Cello Suite No. 1, please" works very well. We just need more test-makers of the caliber of dear J.S.