The Ohio Academic Content Standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should attain, often called the what of what students should know and be able to do. They indicate the ways of thinking, working, communicating, reasoning and investigating, and important and enduring ideas, concepts, issues, dilemmas and knowledge essential to the discipline.
Ohio Academic Content Standards contains links to all content standards in downloadable formats including Library and Technology Standards
Library and Content Standards Alignment Poster (PDF) and also available in MS Excel format
Ohio Guidelines for Effective School Library Media Programs developed by the Ohio Department of Education’s Office of Curriculum and Instruction (2003) these guidelines represent a standards-based education (SBE) approach to school library programs
Aligning Resources to Ohio's Academic Content Standards provides a hierarchical order from content area to grade level indicator to enable librarians to copy and paste a standard's information into a cataloging record, ensuring that all information - including a correct OSIC - is included.
Data Driven Decisions for Academic Achievement (D3A2) provides Ohio teachers with systematic access to valuable performance data and aligned educational content to help them meet the needs of their individual students. (Please note that some Ohio School Districts do not participate in D3A2).
ODE Checklists Prepared by the Institute for Information Literacy Education (ILILE) to support Ohio Department of Education Academic Content Standards, including major subject areas and library guidelines.
TRAILS (Tools for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) is an ILILE tool for library media specialists and teachers to assess the information literacy skills of their students.
AASL Guidelines & Standards includes links to Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, and Learning4Life. |