Re: TARGET -> Curriculum examples for Electronic Info. HS magnet

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@CUSD.CHICO.K12.CA.US>]

In response to:

> The program began with 85 ninth and tenth graders, a coordinator, and
> three teachers who were hired shortly before school started.  We have been
> developing the curriculum and the program as we go.  We have now set aside
> Friday, February 24, 1995, for an all-day joint planning session involving
> the teachers, library staff and UCLA representatives.

   The program sounds great, especially if the coordinator or one of the
three teachers is a credentialed school library media teacher, or if there
are plans to bring one aboard with the next expansion of the class.
Doesn't seem like it though. But I hope so.  The single most important
person in a school like you have started is the on-site, credentialed
school library media teacher.

   The reason I suggest this is because that is the specific role of the
LMT, who is educated and trained as both a subject matter specialist and
as a school librarian.  The LMT is able to both teach students within a
particular subject or subjects, plus design information-based curriculum
with the teachers which is based on sound principles of information
literacy and the guidelines outlined in Information Power.

   I would also imagine that the LMT would make use of such resources as
the Big Six Skills for Information problem solving, and bring with them
extensive Internet experience as a user of the statewide K-12 Internet
gateway service, CORE.

Best wishes,

Peter          PMILBURY@ERICIR.SYR.EDU
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