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April 2003
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Past Issues
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Have a newsworthy item? Comments? Questions? Contact Paula Byrne, editor
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By Peggy Hallisey
Membership comments received on last summer's posting of the revised Standards document suggested that more work was needed to strengthen its focus on student learning and on building a community of learners. To accomplish this, the specific school library media resources/tools needed to positively impact learning and teaching were moved from the Standard Statement to its Specifications section.
The need was also seen for the MSLMA Standards document to complement both the national guidelines for school library media programs and the MSLMA Rubric for Model School Library Media Programs. To accomplish this, the revised MSLMA Standards will divide into three sections with two standards in each section. The sections will be: Learning and Teaching, Information Access and Delivery, and Program Administration. The school library media program standards will be for: Learning, Teaching, Facilities, Resources, Management and Leadership, and Administrative Support.
The document is scheduled for completion in October 2003. It will contain:
- annotated citations of national and state research on school library media programs,
- an executive summary
- an overview/rationale for MA SLMP,
- the six standards, set up in the order of: Standard, Rationale, Outcomes, Specifications, Other Considerations, Implications, Examples of Assessment Tools,
- three model integrated learning scenarios (in place of vignettes),
- Bibliography and appendices.
MSLMA members are invited to submit one of their successful collaborative integrated units to be considered for inclusion in the MSLMA Standards document as a model integrated learning scenario. The format for submission is:
- Title & Grade level,
- Curriculum Framework Learning Standards to be assessed,
- Information literacy concepts and skills to be addressed/performance indicators,
- Introduction,
- Practice/Assessment,
- Culminating performance/product and evaluation,
- Names of content teacher and library teacher who developed the lesson/unit.
Submission deadline is June 6, 2003. Examples of integrated learning scenarios may be found in the Massachusetts Recommended Instructional Technology Standards at the MA Department of Education website. For more information or to submit a lesson for consideration, please contact Peggy Hallisey at peghallisey@earthlink.net
The revised Facilities Standard is included here for your review and input. MSLMA Standards Revision Document Committee members Mary Weaver, Peggy Hallisey, Sandy Kelly, Mary Saunders and Lorraine Sousa invite your comments. They may be emailed to any member of the committee anytime during the two weeks following the April publication of Media Forum online.