The American Association of School Librarians’ Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database is a tool to support school librarians and other educators in teaching the essential learning skills defined in the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Visitors can search the database using learning standards, topics, grade-levels, schedule types, resources and keywords. But this tool is much more than a search engine; it’s a community for collaboration, professional standards and personal growth.
To ensure a lesson plan database of the highest quality, prior to submitting content AASL asks users to review the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century LEarner Lesson Plan Rubric and Checklist at www.ala.org/lessonplandatabase.
To register and begin contributing to the Lesson Plan Database, visit http://aasl.jesandco.org
Don’t forget to check out ISLMA’s I-SAIL document, which will soon be updated to include alignment with the new Common Core standards. Also, the 3rd edition of Linking for Learning is an accessible, current, working tool that connects school library media programs to information literacy and the Illinois Learning Standards. Linking for Learning focuses on the integration of information and technology into learning. Linking for Learning provides an implementation framework which emphasizes planning and assessment.
