Library Media Course of Study

Philosophy

The Olentangy Local School District is committed to providing leadership and support services to staff that will facilitate maximum learning for every student.

Olentangy Local Schools Library Media programs are the basis for effectively managing a school library media center, building a resource collection that is mapped to the curriculum, delivering literacy and library programming that foster a love of reading and defining the essential information literacy, technology literacy, and media literacy skills instruction necessary to provide students, kindergarten through grade 12, with high-quality school library media programs that reinforce Ohio’s academic content standards.

Mapping

Curriculum at Olentangy is developed through a technique called mapping. This three-step process includes teachers or administrators that would like to participate in mapping, a representative community curriculum committee review and the board of education review and adoption of the map. The maps are aligned and clearly articulate high expectations for our students. Simply, the maps describe exactly what Olentangy students should know and do in a particular subject at each grade level. The maps are concise (one or two pages per grade level or subject) and easy for any stakeholder to read. The maps are designed this way to allow for greater depth of teaching and student understanding. The maps are the adopted curriculum for the district and guide classroom instruction.

Adopted 10/2005