ISP matrix K-6
About the Information Skills Process (ISP)
Information skills in the school provides a framework for developing student skills to enhance information literacy. When partnered with the Quality Teaching model, it can inform professional judgments about targeted, explicit information skills teaching interventions for class units of work and cross curriculum priorities, such as literacy and integrating ICT. A guided inquiry approach could also enrich the teaching process.
Extracts from Dr Carol Gordon’s PowerPoint The school library: a 21st century classroom? provide insights into creating an inquiry-based learning task. The Professional Teachers' Council NSW Toolkit A-Z suggests many useful digital tools for undertaking these learning tasks.
Linking the information process with Quality Teaching is a PowerPoint presentation from the article Quality teaching: information skills and literature circles by Jan Reynolds in Scan volume 25, number 4, November 2006. Use this for ideas for staff development sessions.
About the matrix
The matrix has a focus on linking syllabus outcomes, information skills, ICT and Quality Teaching. It provides sample ideas related to COGs units as a way to provide a learning context. The ideas in the matrix are available to adapt to your needs. Dip in and out for ideas relevant to the phase of the ISP you are focussing on with a class group. These ideas will continue to be added to, so refresh your pages occasionally. You can access the matrix in any of the following ways.
ISP K-6 overview: ideas to support COGs strands
ISP K-6: the complete matrix [coming]
ISP Stage 2: ideas to support Our fleeting past for all phases of the information process
ISP Stage 2 Programming proforma example,Our fleeting past, Selecting phase of the information process
Programming proforma (sample for collaboration)
Additional K-6 teaching ideas and resources
Jump into storyboarding is an ES1/S1 English resource for interactive whiteboards to support writing and digital storytelling, created by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit and AGQTP. This resource features the cartoon characters Pig and Bear created by Nik Scott. Choose Primary then select Early Stage 1 English to locate the resource. Some schools may find the resource file size too large to process. Please contact Elizabeth Chase for further information and to receive a version containing smaller sized files.
Extracts from Jump into storyboarding (these do not require an IWB):
Character posters
Flower story
Pig’s present
Pirate’s story
Story icon posters
Tree story
See also Links4Learning
OneNote, in Microsoft Office 2007, is a valuable tool for teachers and students in organising research assignments. Take a look at Communicating about the library. This is a resource for teacher librarians.
Explore more K-6 teaching ideas supporting literature, literacy including visual literacy, and integrating ICTs for aspects of various KLAs. See also Information skills teaching ideas, Information Skills Process posters, the Resource evaluation checklist, and the Cognitive organisers booklet.
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