1. Designing Instruction for School Library Media Centers
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Designing Instruction for School Library Media Centers

2. Introduction Activities
Draw from our card deck and create the best poker hand group you can make in three minutes.
Create groups based on astrological signs: compare notes about personality traits and report findings back to group.
Interview the person sitting next to you, get to know each other, and report back to the group your findings.
Each student takes two minutes to share with the group a title of a book that reflects something about themselves.

3. Instructional Leaders
Information Power defines the school library media specialist as information specialist, teacher, and instructional consultant-giving equal importance to each role…An instructional consultant must have the knowledge, expertise, and experience of a teacher combined with knowledge of the total library media collection and other resources outside the center that relate to and enhance the curriculum.
Library media specialists "should bring their knowledge of research, teaching methodology, curriculum development, learning theory, and instructional development to the process of teaching."(28) Thus, the library media specialist must be a master teacher.
Pickard, Patricia W Current Research: The Instructional Consultant Role of the School Library Media Specialist .

4. Course Organizer
Strategies instruction models make clear that being explicit with students about the course organization – how activities and assessments are connected with goals and objectives – helps students to be successful.

5. Instructional Design Learner Analysis Materials Selection
Needs Assessment
Implementation
Evaluation
Instructional
Objectives
Strategies
&
Activities

6. Prior Knowledge Assessment
Strategies for determining what students already know:
A-Z Activity
KWL
Exit Cards

7. Needs Assessment Cooperative Group Work: Establish roles in group:
Recorder, Reporter, Reader, etc.
Read, Discuss, Summarize, Report

8. Learner Analysis
“Once a teacher has determined what successful students are expected to be able to do, and the unique ways in which each student learns, the probability that appropriate materials and activities will be used is greatly enhanced.”
Turner, Philip M. and Ann Marlow Reidling. Helping Teachers Teach.

9. Learner Analysis Procedures
Complete the following assessments, which will help us gear our instruction toward meeting your diverse needs:
Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory
Exit Card