Eriksen Britt, Maria Session PP 090902
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School Library
Year Plans
A way of implementing school strategy and meeting
curriculum requirements
Maria Eriksen Britt
Municipal Association of School Libraries in Denmark
Denmark
A small country in Scandinavia
5,5 mill. inhabitants
Consists of 98 municipalities
1700 schools
10 years of mandatory school for all children
School Libraries in Denmark
All public schools must have a school library (1964).
All school libraries must have professionally trained staff or staff in training.
All school librarians must be teachers and have practiced teaching for several years before becoming a school librarian.
The school librarian education consists of a basis module of 120 hours and two p.d. modules of each 246 hours.
School Library Curriculum
No curriculum in Denmark
Must support subject curriculums
Guides teachers in lesson planning
Assists in choice of teaching
materials
Municipal Association of School
Libraries in Denmark
Board of 8 politicians, 2 professionals
and 1 interest group representative
MunicipalitiesPrivate schoolsPublic schools
OtherOrganizations
And Cooperation
partners
Employees Advisory board of professionals
School Library of the year
Founded in 2007
Issued twice: 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
Three finalists each year
One winner and two runner ups
Hillerødsholmskolen runner up 2007/2008
Why Make Year Plans?
Implement pedagogical strategy
Help meet curriculum requirements
Qualify the Information Literacy teaching
Hillerødsholmskolen
850 students between the age of 5 and 16
60+ teachers
The school library is open and staffed 32 hours a week
12 hours a week there are 2 trained school librarians in the library
The school library staff
3 trained school librarians
1 IT specialist
Part time helpers shelving books and other tasks
Specialist teachers from the pedagogical staff
The Catalogue
29 pages
21 different activities
At least 2 activities for each class
Different levels of participation
Information Literacy and IT
Weekly Library Hour – 0-5th grade
Information Literacy – 2nd, 4th and 6th grade
Media Education – 3rd, 5th and 7th grade
IT Course – 3rd grade
Search Skills – 8th grade
Project Management – 8th and 9th grade
Levels of Participation
School library activity
Cooperation activity
Class room activity
School Library Activity
All 2nd graders
“Star race”
Groups of 4 or 5
Find their way and solve tasks about literature
Cooperation Activity
Offered to all 5th grades
“Graphic Novels”
Introduction to the genre
3 weeks of reading and working
Intranet as a tool of communication
Questionnaires, multiple choice quizzes and making websites
Class Room Activity
All 7th graders
“The Newspaper in the Education”
Produce an entire newspaper
Learn to use the layout program Publisher
Planning and teaching by classroom teachers
School library prepares students and teachers
The school library is the contact between teachers and national planners
Other Subjects
“Art Detectives” – Arts & Crafts
“The Murder of Johanne Jensen” – ICT (movie editing)
“Photo Competition” – Danish, Arts & Crafts, ICT (photo editing)
“Melved – the case” – Danish, Social Studies, Biology, Math & Physics
“Palestine Conflicts” – English, Social Studies
Important points
Offers activities to classes and teachers
Activities based on teacher’s lesson plans
Activities based on need, desire and experience
Good examples of integrating ICT
Good planning facilitates extended cooperation between SL and teachers
Cooperation with School
Management Listens to School
Library ideas
Gave mandate to decide mandatory and voluntary activities
Focus on reading and IT skills
The Impact
Higher level of participation in school library activities
Teachers have more time for students
Less need for rules and guidelines
School library staff know the students better
Teachers are more aware of school library competencies
School library is better able to adapt teaching to support teacher’s plan and curriculum
Important Notes
Catalogue must be issued before teacher planning
Activities must be easy for teachers to engage in
Always provide teachers and students with necessary information
Don’t invent a new catalogue each year. REUSE!
The goal is to:
Facilitate good and inspiring teaching
Help meet curriculum requirements
Include Information Literacy, ICT and other skills in the normal teaching