The school I am associated with has not developed an
information literacy policy; it seems to be quite behind on all policy fronts.
The school has recently hired a director of teaching and learning to combat
these issues.
I believe that an information literacy policy should be an
essential policy document within schools. This type of document details what is
expected of staff and students, in areas of ICT literacy in particular, and
provides something to fall back on when disputes arise. An information literacy
policy can display clearly goals and actions which can be used across KLAs.
Currently there is no whole school approach to information literacy
in the school I am associated with. It is the domain of English and literacy
support aides /teachers. There is also no employed teacher librarian to support
this area. I was a science teacher at this school and found I was using a lot
of my class time to teach information literacy skills which I had wrongly assumed
were being taught in other classes or by a teacher librarian.
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