1. Are special educators prepared to teach information literacy standard?
G-CASE Fall Conference Susan Brown, Ph.D.

2. Session Objectives:
To define and provide examples of the new information literacy standards.
To provide data on information literacy competency of adults
To address information literacy competency of current special education teachers.
To propose strategies to prepare special education teachers to support students with disabilities.

3. Why information literacy?
The overarching goal of k-20 education is simple – to produce independent, self sufficient lifelong learners who can successfully navigate the competitive challenges of post secondary educational and/or workplace opportunities (NFIL, 2014).

4. What is informational literacy?
(NFIL, 2014)

5. What is information literacy?
Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information (ACRL, 2014).
Determine the extent of information needed
Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
Evaluate information and its sources critically
Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base
Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally

6. The Citation Project
Writers have four means by which they can incorporate source content into their text: they can quote, summarize, paraphrase, or patchwrite that content. Contemporary educational and media discourse has been focused on whether writers acknowledge their sources when they incorporate material from them. A more profound question is how writers incorporate source material; quotation, summary, paraphrase, and patchwriting are separate discursive moves representing different levels of intellectual engagement with the source (The Citation Project, 2014).

7. Project Information Literacy
Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a large-scale, national study about early adults and their research habits.
How do first year college students make the critical information transition from high school to college?

8. The LILAC Project
The LILAC Project is a multi-institutional study of the information- seeking behaviors of students from a variety of levels and institution types.
Hypothesis: While students are receiving instruction in information literacy skills, including instruction in locating, evaluating, using, and citing information sources, much of this learning does not carry over with them beyond the confines of the specific assignment or classroom.

9. Ga Information literacy standards
ELACCKRL1 Key Ideas and Details:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key
details in a text.
Core/Documents/CCGPS_6-8_SS-Science-Tech-Literacy_Guidance.pdf

10. Data on information literacy competency of adultsbe

11. Information literacy competency of current special education teachers
Information Literacy and Teacher Education ERIC ED
12 Rationale for instructional strategies 2 3 4 1
MED Candidate Mastery

12. Strategies to prepare special education teachers to support students with disabilities
Collaboration with ELA and Content Teachers to identify student needs.
Collaboration with Librarians/Media Specialists to provide targeted student workshops
Identify evidence-based practice to support information literacy development in K-12 students
Identify accommodations to support swd access
Provide professional development for special education teachers in information literacy.

13. References
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (2014). Introduction to information literacy. Accessed at
National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) (2014). Information literacy skills. Accessed at: projects-and-programs/
Georgia Standards.org (2014).

14. The Citation Project (2014). Research questions
The Citation Project (2014). Research questions. Accessed at: Project Information Literacy (PIL) (2014). Accessed at: