Greetings, colleagues!
Carol Simpson has challenged us to "Speak out to your
administrators, teachers, boards, and communities..."
<http://www.carolsimpson.com/LMC_AprilMay07_EdsNotes.pdf>
Let's share how we are informing our stakeholders about the ETS ICT
information and ultimately staking our claim on information literacy.
I will start by sharing the three ways I have shared information
relating the ETS ICT to practice and instruction in our high school
library with three different stakeholder groups.
1. When the information about the test and the results were reported
last November. I visited the ETS Web site and found a report on the
Preliminary Findings on the ICT test.
<http://www.ets.org/Media/Products/ICT_Literacy/pdf/2006_Preliminary_Findings.pdf>
I also read an e-school news article on the test results and findings.
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6725>
From these readings, I identified and made a list of nine areas that
the test is designed to assess. I aligned and then listed lessons with
collaborating teachers and projects for each of the identified skills.
There were introductory, reinforcement and advanced lessons for nearly
all of the skills. I also wrote a brief overview of the ICT test and
the preliminary findings and and took all of this information to my
principal to celebrate that our collaborative and integrated
instructional information literacy program is on target to help our
students succeed both now and in the future.
2. In December, at the meeting of our Principal Advisory Committee,
when committee members were asked for compliments, I complimented the
high school staff for working with me to help meet our students' 21st
century learning needs and handed out copies of my "report" to all of
the committee members.
3. Most recently, I wrote a simplified version of my findings for the
March/April edition of the school district's community newsletter
(required by the state). This letter is mailed to every household in
the school district.
The article title is "Ready & Set to Work, Learn and Live in the
21st Century!" I tried to make the article short and layman friendly.
While writing I did my best to eliminate most of the jargon. An elderly
neighbor helped by proofreading for readability. A copy of the article
can be downloaded from: <http://www.deblogan.com/ICTarticle.doc>.
While this article was written with parents and community members in
mind, I am happy to report that it also caught the attention of a
teacher who thanked me for mentioning him in the article. :-)
Mike, thank you for starting this discussion. I am looking forward
to hearing ideas from other people.
--
Sincerely,
Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist
Mount Gilead High School
Mount Gilead, OH
MAILTO:jd3logan@bright.net
http://www.deblogan.com
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