Standard 1: Teaching for Learning

Candidates are effective teachers who demonstrate knowledge of learners and learning and who model and
promote collaborative planning, instruction in multiple literacies, and inquiry-based learning, enabling
members of the learning community to become effective users and creators of ideas and information.
Candidates design and implement instruction that engages students interests and develops their ability to
inquire, think critically, gain and share knowledge.
Standard Artifacts Reflection
1.1 Knowledge of learners and learning

Candidates are knowledgeable of learning styles, stages of
human growth and development, and cultural influences on
learning. Candidates assess learner needs and design
instruction that reflects educational best practice.
Candidates support the learning of all students and other
members of the learning community, including those with
diverse learning styles, physical and intellectual abilities and
needs. Candidates base twenty-first century skills instruction
on student interests.

ISTC 601:
Facilities
Design
ISTC 541:
Technology
Integrated
Lesson Plan
Standard 1.1
1.2 Effective and knowledgeable teacher

Candidates implement the principles of effective teaching
and learning that contribute to an active, inquiry-based
approach to learning. Candidates make use of a variety of
instructional strategies and assessment tools to design and
develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments in
partnership with classroom teachers and other educators.
Candidates can document and communicate the impact of
collaborative instruction on student achievement.

ISTC 541:
Technology
Integrated
Lesson Plan
ISTC 789:
Lesson Plan
Standard 1.2
1.3 Instructional partner

Candidates model, share, and promote effective principles of
teaching and learning as collaborative partners with other
educators. Candidates acknowledge the importance of
participating in curriculum development, of engaging in
school improvement processes, and of offering professional
development to other educators as it relates to library and
information use.

ISTC 789:
Professiona
l
Developme
nt
ISTC 601:
Action Plan
to Support
Common
Core
Standard 1.3
1.4 Integration of twenty-first century skills and learning
standards
ISTC 601:
Library
Standard 1.4

Candidates advocate for twenty-first century literacy skills to
support the learning needs of the school community.
Candidates demonstrate how to collaborate with other
teachers to plan and implement instruction of the AASL
Standards for the21st-Century Learner and state student
curriculum standards. Candidates employ strategies to
integrate multiple literacies with content curriculum.
Candidates integrate the use of emerging technologies as a
means for effective and creative teaching and to support P-
12 students' conceptual understanding, critical thinking and
creative processes.

Advocacy
Project
ISTC 651:
Slam Dunk
Standard 2: Literacy and Reading

Candidates promote reading for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment. Candidates are aware of major
trends in children's and young adult literature and select reading materials in multiple formats to support
reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning. Candidates use a variety of
strategies to reinforce classroom reading instruction to address the diverse needs and interests of all readers.

Standard Artifacts Reflection
2.1 Literature

Candidates are familiar with a wide range of childrens,
young adult, and professional literature in multiple formats
and languages to support reading for information, reading
for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning.

ISTC 789:
Suggested
Book Order
ISTC 789:
Lesson Plan
Standard 2.1
2.2 Reading promotion

Candidates use a variety of strategies to promote leisure
reading and model personal enjoyment of reading in order to
promote habits of creative expression and lifelong reading.

SCED 518:
Alternative
Book
Report
EDUC 717:
Author
Study
Standard 2.2
2.3 Respect for diversity

Candidates demonstrate the ability to develop a collection of
reading and information materials in print and digital formats
that support the diverse developmental, cultural, social, and
linguistic needs of P-12 students and their communities.

ISTC 789:
Suggested
Book Order
EDUC 717:
Multicultur
al Text Set
Standard 2.3
2.4 Literacy strategies ISTC 789: Standard 2.4

Candidates collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce
a wide variety of reading instructional strategies to ensure P-
12 students are able to create meaning from text.

Lesson Plan
EDUC 717:
Multicultur
al Text Set
Standard 3: Information and Knowledge

Candidates model and promote ethical, equitable access to and use of physical, digital, and virtual collections
of resources. Candidates demonstrate knowledge of a variety of information sources and services that
support the needs of the diverse learning community. Candidates demonstrate the use of a variety of
research strategies to generate knowledge to improve practice.

Standard Artifacts Reflection
3.1 Efficient and ethical information-seeking behavior

Candidates identify and provide support for diverse student
information needs. Candidates model multiple strategies for
students, other teachers, and administrators to locate,
evaluate, and ethically use information for specific purposes.
Candidates collaborate with students, other teachers, and
administrators to efficiently access, interpret, and
communicate information.

ISTC 601:
Virtual
Learning
Commons
ISTC 615:
Policy
Analysis
Standard 3.1
3.2 Access to information

Candidates support flexible, open access for library services.
Candidates demonstrate their ability to develop solutions for
addressing physical, social and intellectual barriers to
equitable access to resources and services. Candidates
facilitate access to information in print, non-print, and digital
formats. Candidates model and communicate the legal and
ethical codes of the profession.

ISTC 601:
Facilities
Design
ISTC 651:
Slam Dunk
Standard 3.2
3.3 Information technology

Candidates demonstrate their ability to design and adapt
relevant learning experiences that engage students in
authentic learning through the use of digital tools and
resources. Candidates model and facilitate the effective use
of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze,
evaluate, and use information resources to support research,
learning, creating, and communicating in a digital society.

ISTC 651:
Slam Dunk
ISTC 789:
Professiona
l
Developme
nt
Standard 3.3
3.4 Research and knowledge creation

Candidates use evidence-based, action research to collect
data. Candidates interpret and use data to create and share
new knowledge to improve practice in school libraries.

ISTC 685:
Research
Visual
Presentatio
n
ISTC 541:
Instruction
al Design
Paper
Standard 3.4
Standard 4: Advocacy and Leadership

Candidates advocate for dynamic school library programs and positive learning environments that focus on
student learning and achievement by collaborating and connecting with teachers, administrators, librarians,
and the community. Candidates are committed to continuous learning and professional growth and lead
professional development activities for other educators. Candidates provide leadership by articulating ways in
which school libraries contribute to student achievement.

Standard Artifacts Reflection
4.1 Networking with the library community

Candidates demonstrate the ability to establish connections
with other libraries and to strengthen cooperation among
library colleagues for resource sharing, networking, and
facilitating access to information. Candidates participate and
collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network
of learners.

ISTC 789:
Lesson Plan
ISTC 789:
Journal
Entries
Standard 4.1
4.2 Professional development

Candidates model a strong commitment to the profession by
participating in professional growth and leadership
opportunities through membership in library associations,
attendance at professional conferences, reading professional
publications, and exploring Internet resources. Candidates
plan for ongoing professional growth.

ISTC 615:
Professiona
l
Publication
s
ISTC 789:
Journal
Entries
Standard 4.2
4.3 Leadership

Candidates are able to articulate the role and relationship of
the school library program's impact on student academic
achievement within the context of current educational
initiatives. Utilizing evidence-based practice and information
from education and library research, candidates
ISTC 601:
School
Improveme
nt Plan
ISCT 615:
Policy
Analysis
Standard 4.3
communicate ways in which the library program can enhance
school improvement efforts.

4.4 Advocacy

Candidates identify stakeholders within and outside the
school community who impact the school library program.
Candidates develop a plan to advocate for school library and
information programs, resources, and services.

ISTC 601:
Advocacy
ISTC 789:
Journal 3R
Standard 4.4
Standard 5: Program Management and Administration

Candidates plan, develop, implement, and evaluate school library programs, resources, and services in
support of the mission of the library program within the school according to the ethics and principles of library
science, education, management, and administration.

Standard Artifacts Reflection
5.1 Collections

Candidates evaluate and select print, non-print, and digital
resources using professional selection tools and evaluation
criteria to develop and manage a quality collection designed
to meet the diverse curricular, personal, and professional
needs of students, teachers, and administrators. Candidates
organize school library collections according to current
library cataloging and classification principles and standards.

ISTC 615:
Selection
and Review
Tools
ISTC 789:
Weeding
Document
Standard 5.1
5.2 Professional ethics

Candidates practice the ethical principles of their profession,
advocate for intellectual freedom and privacy, and promote
and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Candidates
educate the school community on the ethical use of
information and ideas.

ISTC 789:
Copyright
Lessons
ISTC 789:
Journal 3R
Standard 5.2
5.3 Personnel, funding, and facilities

Candidates apply best practices related to planning,
budgeting, and evaluating human, information, and physical
resources. Candidates organize library facilities to enhance
the use of information resources and services and to ensure
equitable access to all resources for all users. Candidates
develop, implement, and evaluate policies and procedures
ISTC 789:
Journal 3R
ISTC 601:
Facilities
Design
Standard 5.3
that support teaching and learning in school libraries.

5.4 Strategic planning and assessment

Candidates communicate and collaborate with students,
teachers, administrators, and community members to
develop a library program that aligns resources, services, and
standards with the school's mission. Candidates make
effective use of data and information to assess how the
library program addresses the needs of their diverse
communities.

ISTC 615:
Field Study
Interview
ISTC 601:
School
Improveme
nt Plan
Standard 5.4