Standard 01
The Learner and Learning
Start with the learner.
This collection focuses on understanding learner needs, supporting individual growth and creating meaningful opportunities to learn through the library.
Standard Breakdown
Standard 1: The Learner and Learning
Candidates in school librarian preparation programs are effective educators who demonstrate an awareness of learners’ development. Candidates promote cultural competence and respect for inclusiveness. Candidates integrate the National School Library Standards considering learner development, diversity, and differences while fostering a positive learning environment. Candidates impact student learning so that all learners are prepared for college, career, and life.
1.1 Learner Development. Candidates demonstrate the ways learners grow within and across cognitive, psychomotor, affective, and developmental domains. Candidates engage learners’ interests to think, create, share and grow as they design and implement instruction that integrates the National School Library Standards.
1.2 Learner Diversity. Candidates articulate and model cultural competence and respect for inclusiveness, supporting individual and group perspectives.
1.3 Learning Differences. Candidates cultivate the educational and personal development of all members of a learning community, including those with diverse intellectual abilities, learning modalities, and physical variabilities.
1.4 Learning Environments. Candidates create both physical and virtual learner-centered environments that are engaging and equitable. The learning environments encourage positive social interaction and the curation and creation of knowledge.
Artifact collection
Reference Resource Collection
This Resource Collection provides materials across varying reading levels, interest areas, and complexity to stimulate critical thinking and creative inquiry. It caters to different age or developmental groups by balancing foundational literacy tools with advanced research databases or multisensory media and includes diverse authors, authentic own-voices literature, global perspectives, and varied cultural representations.
Assistive Technology
The Assistive Technology Showcase is a lesson plan that has been built working collaboratively with a teacher. In this lesson, students are directed to research a National Park and present it in a digital format that is accessable to diverse learners.