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AASL Framework for Learners

Inquire - Include - Collaborate - Curate - Explore - Engage

Students need distributed practice (sessions spread over time) of these skills across all grades to help move them into long term memory.

Activity:
Take a few minutes to look over the proficiency scales. Choose 2 highlighter colors: Using one color, highlight all outcomes and sample tasks that you already do or use in your lessons. Choose another color and highlight the outcomes / sample tasks that you plan to intentionally add (or incorporate more) into your instructional practice.

Grant Wiggins once said, “The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning the answer, but about learning how to learn.”

100 Awesome Essential Questions

Collaborate with us! Carrots:

• Grading: Evaluation forms, research quality, bibliographies, in-text citations
• Help designing projects and activities (including authentic PBL units / lessons)
• Co-teaching opportunities
• One-on-one research help for students (and teachers!)
• Research Tool Box and lessons to reinforce information literacy skills

Exit ticket

• Your name
• One inspiration
• One question
• Any notes for the librarians (collaboration opportunities)?

During your work time, consider how information literacy skills practice might augment a lesson / unit.
Consider how the Research Toolbox, IL proficiency scales, and the librarians can help.