Just Your "Standard" First Blog Post

"The standards empower school librarians to be leaders that truly transform teaching and learning."

Prior to reading about these standards, I had never thought this way. Before my move to the library, I was a classroom teacher and the standards that I used to teach did everything but empower me because of this prior relationship with standards I had to reshape my thinking. The shared foundations in the AASL standards make it so easy to focus instruction for professionals, teachers, and students.

The AASL standards include six shared foundations; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage.  Each of these concepts is something that is done nearly every day in the library but can be configured depending on the target audience.  In addition to the shared foundations, the AASL standards also include four domains; think, create, share, and grow. These are cyclical and match up with specific foundations. As librarians, we can use this to guide the way that we approach different concepts. 

Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2018.

Alternatively, the ISTE standards are used mainly for technology-based learning and are centered around seven standards; empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor, innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, and global collaborator. 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

Although the AASL standards and the ISTE standards are very different, they do tend to align in some categories making it easy to utilize them both. I think it would be easiest to integrate the ISTE standards into the shared foundations of the AASL standards. 


References

About this site | ISTE Student Standards. (2023). Retrieved 22 January 2023, [image] from https://iste.web.unc.edu/about/

American Association of School Librarians. (2018). National school library standards for learners, school librarians, and school libraries. American Library Association.

Lewis, C. (2019). Leveraging Crosswalks for Communication. Knowledge Quest, 47(5), pp. 42-43.

Lewis, K. (2019). What's in a Quote? Building Connections Using the National School Library Standars. Knowledge Quest, 47(5), pp. 4-5.

Standal, J. (2023). AASL National School Library Standards: Domains and Competencies. [image] from https://libraries.idaho.gov/aasl-national-school-library-standards-domains-and-competencies/





Comments

  1. Melissa WhiteJanuary 22, 2023 at 6:34 PM

    You had me at "shelf control" and " 'standard' first blog post" - love the word play! The quote you used stood out to me as well and is helping to define my role in the library as a leader. I was also previously a classroom teacher driven by the standards, but I did not fully understand the importance of the library standards until this deep dive into them. It was helpful for me to see both sets of standards in a cyclical chart. It's a great visualization to show how each are connected.

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