Discusses how to design a thematic children's literature unit with trade books. Highlights include theme versus topic; benefits of thematic units, including analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating; opportunities for higher level thinking; sequencing the titles; determining key discussion questions; and culminating the unit. (LRW)

As the ability to access and use information is necessary for school, work, and personal life, this position paper by the American Association of School Librarians examines information problem-solving skills and information literacy. Presents seven steps for an information literacy curriculum, and eight scenarios of cooperative instructional…

Discussion of the leadership role that school librarians need to take focuses on three main areas: (1) to provide access to information; (2) to help teachers with instructional design, including 10 steps for implementing instructional design and examples from an actual unit; and (3) to help with curriculum reform. (LRW)

Reports on three research studies that indicate that exemplary teacher-librarians impact student achievement through leadership, cooperative program planning and team teaching, knowledge of information and technology, student access and assistance, and administrative support. (Author/LRW)

Suggests it is the responsibility of librarians and teachers to develop the imagination of children by exposing them to literature. Excerpts are used to illustrate literature as the basis of moral consciousness, personal enrichment, and culture. (Author/AEF)

Describes an eighth-grade unit of study about the Holocaust conducted by a teacher-librarian and an English/Social Studies teacher. Sidebars include guidelines for teaching the subject, an exercise on stereotyping, suggested final projects, and a timeline of the Holocaust. Print resources and Internet sites for additional reading are provided.…

Discusses the emergence and use of an information curriculum as a way of utilizing traditional resource-based instruction elements to help teachers and teacher-librarians plan resource-based lesson units. Lists 10 learning concepts that form the basis for an information curriculum, and presents a planning model for preparing lesson units. (JMV)

Reviews research findings that indicate students learn more and produce better research products following planned, integrated information skills instruction by the teacher and teacher-librarian together. Topics include the search process, search strategies, concept mapping, integrated resource-based instruction, and the need for formal planning.…

Gives a year-by-year description of the five-year process of redefining a Canadian elementary school library program and the implementation of a learning resources program. Three components of the learning resources program are covered: (1) cooperative program planning; (2) cooperative teaching; and (3) accessing and managing human and materials…

Presents three scenarios that pose obstacles to teacher-librarian instructional consultation. Each situation is analyzed and draws on teacher planning research. Practical approaches for instructional collaboration are offered. (AEF)

Provides a case study that investigated how a part-time elementary school teacher-librarian was working toward fulfilling the goals of AASL's "Information Power." Highlights include the roles of the teacher-librarian: teacher, information specialist, and information consultant; and integrating information skills into a literature-based…

Discusses collaboration between secondary school teacher-librarians and English teachers to promote literacy and reading through choice book units, where students can choose from a selection of suggested titles. Topics include nonfiction books; advantages for low-ability readers; audio books; and Teachers as Readers book discussion groups. (LRW)

Comments on the following research finding: teacher-librarians who understand the search process, work with classroom colleagues to integrate the process in instruction, and intervene early in student support, more effectively guarantee student success and academic achievement than those who don't. (PEN)

Discusses flexible scheduling in school library media centers. Highlights include integrating classroom instruction with library instruction, collaboration between classroom teachers and teacher librarians, information skills curriculum, access to the library resource center, team planning, expectations of principals, commitment to resource-based…

Describes the use of a modified version of the I-Search writing process for a high school freshman English research paper. Topics include collaboration between the classroom teacher and the teacher librarian, student journals, research strategies, problem solving, recognizing bias and opinions in sources, student assessments, and teacher…