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AASL Standard 2:
//Teaching and Learning// School library media candidates model and promote collaborative planning with classroom  teachers in order to teach concepts and skills of information processes integrated with  classroom content. They partner with other education professionals to develop and deliver an integrated information skills curriculum. Candidates design and implement instruction that engages the student’s interests, passions, and needs which drive their learning.

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Technology Integration Unit media type="custom" key="11197776" align="left"

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Integrating technology within instructional units and lessons helps to enhance the teaching and learning of the students. It can also make instruction more interactive for the students. I think that it is important to try to use technology in conjunction with content related instruction. It will better prepare the students to enter the technology rich environment that exists outside of school. One of the ways I integrated technology within the unit was to create a video podcast on the five senses. The video podcast allows for the greater access of information because the students can access and review the presentation from home.

[|Learner Analysis]

To know and understand the different backgrounds and learning styles of the students within a learning community is an important part of being a teacher and a media specialist. All students come from different backgrounds, have different learning styles, and have different motivations for learning. Being aware of all of these things is imperative when it comes to planning and implementing instruction. Completing a learner analysis on the 1st grade students before planning a unit on the weather allowed me to differentiate the instruction in order to meet the learning needs of every student in the class.

Understanding by Design Lesson: Wonderful Weather

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[|Weather Resources Pathfinder] The concept of “backwards design” that resides within the understanding by design method of developing an instructional unit was unfamiliar to me. The idea of beginning with the end goal took a little getting used to at first. It makes sense to plan instruction around what you want the students to know and to be able to do. Every lesson and learning opportunity should work towards that goal. Developing the first grade unit on weather standards using the understanding by design method really helped me to make sure that every lesson and activity helped to meet this end goal.

Collaborative Lesson

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Information Literacy Pathfinder]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Collaboration is a key ingredient in integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum and instruction. Entwining information literacy skills within authentic learning tasks is the most effective way to teach these skills. Collaborating with the kindergarten teacher on a science unit about the five senses allowed us to incorporate the information literacy skills into the content area instruction. The pathfinder I created for the students on the five senses allowed them to explore more resources and get more practice using both their newly acquired information literacy skills and their content area skills.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">[|Webquest: The Diary of Anne Frank] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Webquest on the Diary of Anne Frank is an example of how a media specialist collaborating with a group of teachers can be useful and effective. The Webquest is based on 8th grade GPS English standards. Grade level teachers, along with the media specialist, can get together and brainstorm ideas to come up with different and authentic learning tasks and activities to coincide with topics that they all teach. Collaborating as a grade level can be very effective because it combines all of the ideas and techniques into one lesson. This Webquest incorporates information literacy skills with the Georgia Performance Standards in order to provide a more meaningful and engaging lesson on the Diary of Anne Frank.

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