Empowering students to actively participate in our information rich society requires that they grow as independent, efficient, responsible, and creative users of information through the services of the library teacher and the resources of the library media center. By learning strategies to manage and ethically use information, Newton students experience the world in all its diversity.
Learning to find and use information requires a gradual and sequential process of introduction, practice, and reinforcement at increasingly sophisticated levels throughout the student's educational experience. The library teachers have developed this curriculum document to explain the sequence of instruction required to help a student develop into a competent user of information and into an active, independent reader.
The responsibility for achieving the outcomes articulated in this document rests not only with the library teachers but also with the classroom teachers, the instructional technology specialists, and the school and district administrators.
