An Educator's Guide to Information Literacy: What Every High School Senior Needs to Know

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Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college. Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; checklists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college. This book will offer help and guidance to high school teachers and librarians concerned that high school seniors are not ready to tackle the college library and college level research assignments. And it will inform students about what they need to know. Grades 9-12.

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This book provides important resources for secondary school librarians who need it and fills a gap in the field. * Library Media Connection *
[I]f you want a guide for teaching the research paper, then this one is worth examining because of its short, pithy teaching segments that can be prepared for almost-instant delivery. At the moment, there are efforts by the American Association of School Librarians and the Association of College and Research Libraries to cross the gap between high school senior and first-year college student. This guide helps build that bridge. * Teacher Librarian *
For high school teachers and librarians, this resource book contains lessons, checklists, and assessments based on the standards from Information Power's Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning and the Association for College and Research Libraries' (ACRL), Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education. After discussing each standard, lessons (which are tailored to match specific ACRL standards) are presented, followed by checklists and assessments for students and instructors. A chapter on integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum rounds out the book. * Reference & Research Book News *

Author Bio

Ann Marlow Riedling has worked in the field of library science and information technology since 1974. Her previous books for Libraries Unlimited include Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialist's Role, 3rd Edition and Information Literacy: What Does it Look Like in the School Library Media Center. She has written several other books in the school library fieldand a trade book entitled, How We Became Camels.