Instructional Design: Exemplar A2

Standard: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-plan, Teach and Assess Learning.

Theme: Instructional Leadership

Growth Phase: Evolving

Growth Indicator: LLC leadership team works with teachers to apply information literacy instruction to the design of inquiry learning experiences.


This Ontario school district’s library staff collaborated to build a website to support teachers and students as they “learn how to be thorough and discerning researchers”. Each section of the site (Inquiry and Research, Inquiry Planning, Plagarism-Proof Assignments, Teaching with Technology) includes precise process instructions and many illustrative models.

Waterloo Region District School Board. (2020). Planning Inquiry and Research. Retrieved from https://llc.wrdsb.ca/staff-resources/collaborative-learning/

This Ontario High School research page shows the district learning commons online resources for teacher-librarians to collaborate with classroom teachers in order that students receive additional support for their research and inquiry projects. Includes the Ontario School Library Association Model for Inquiry (p. 23) in Together for Learning.

St. Elizabeth Catholic High School.  (2023).  Research. Retrieved from https://seh.ycdsb.ca/library-learning-commons/research/