Standard: Fostering Literacies to Empower Life-Long Learners
Theme: Information Literacy
Growth Phase: Emerging
Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarian/LLC teacher instructs students in information skills to prepare them for research and inquiry projects.
This Ontario school district provides succinct resources (in English and French) for students and teachers for engaging in the inquiry process using a “Focus, Explore, Share, Analyze” model with reflection/feedback core in all stages. Each piece of the model opens with a lively video overview and contains a bar above with student-friendly videos, graphic organizers, question prompts and more to access. The educator pages include many more references for teacher use and expansion of the process.
Halton District School Board (HDSB). (2019). Stages of Inquiry. Retrieved from https://inquiry.hdsb.ca/
Complete lessons and student worksheets to support research are developed by the Ontario School Library Association in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Ontario School Library Association & Ontario Ministry of Education. (2004). Library research [PDF].
http://accessola2.com/osla/docs/Library%20Final%20PDF%20REV.pdf
The teacher-librarian at this secondary school in British Columbia has designed a fun and collaborative way to introduce students to the SLLC through using activities they can record as phone “selfies” (or “shelfies”).
Fraser Heights School. (2022). Grade 8 Library Learning Commons Boot Camp. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/fhlibrarysite/grade-8-library-learning-commons-bootcamp