Standard 02
Planning for Instruction
Purposeful learning starts with a plan.
This collection focuses on connecting learning goals, instructional choices and assessment to support meaningful library learning experiences.
Standard Breakdown
Standard 2: Planning for Instruction
Candidates in school librarian preparation programs collaborate with the learning community to strategically plan, deliver, and assess instruction. Candidates design culturally responsive learning experiences using a variety of instructional strategies and assessments that measure the impact on student learning. Candidates guide learners to reflect on their learning growth and their ethical use of information. Candidates use data and information to reflect on and revise the effectiveness of their instruction.
2.1 Planning for Instruction. Candidates collaborate with members of the learning community to design developmentally and culturally responsive resource-based learning experiences that integrate inquiry, innovation, and exploration and provide equitable, efficient, and ethical information access.
2.2 Instructional Strategies. Candidates use a variety of instructional strategies and technologies to ensure that learners have multiple opportunities to inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage in their learning.
2.3 Integrating Ethical Use of Information into Instructional Practice. Candidates teach learners to evaluate information for accuracy, bias, validity, relevance, and cultural context. Learners demonstrate ethical use of information and technology in the creation of new knowledge.
2.4 Assessment. Candidates use multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth. Candidates, in collaboration with instructional partners, revise their instruction to address areas in which learners need to develop understanding.
Artifact collection
Collaborative Planner
The document itself is co-authored with a classroom teacher, demonstrating active collaboration with the learning community. By mapping out the precise lesson sequence, resource selection, and shared responsibilities, the planner ensures that resource-based learning experiences are structured efficiently. Co-planning allows both educators to intentionally embed inquiry tasks, balance instructional roles, and ensure all students have equitable access to learning materials and guidance during the lesson.
Research Project
Collaborative Lesson Idea
The core mechanic of the artifact—students teaching and assisting each other across regions—integrates the AASL Shared Foundations of Inquire, Include, and Collaborate. Implementing digital communication tools (e.g., asynchronous discussion boards, collaborative slide decks, or video exchanges) gives students multiple modalities to articulate their reading analysis and respond to international peers. Finally, learners engage deeply with the material by explaining their comprehension strategies and evidence to an authentic audience rather than just the teacher.
Collaboration Tools
Tools selected for digital curation, attribution, and collaborative creation allow candidates to model and teach responsible digital citizenship. Using collaborative tools to curate and evaluate sources helps learners analyze information for bias, accuracy, and relevance while learning how to ethically cite, remix, and share new knowledge within digital spaces.