American Library Association Standards

Corresponding New York State Standards

Standard 1: The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and effectively.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Standard 2: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Learning Standards for English Language Arts Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding. Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Learning Standards for English Language Arts Standard 2: Language for literary response and expression. Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 1: History of the United States and New York. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 2: World History. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 3: Geography. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 4: Economics. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.                              

Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Standard 6: Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Learning Standards for English Language Arts Standard 3: Language for critical analysis and evaluation. Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Learning Standards for the Arts  Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art.  Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.

Learning Standards for the Arts  Standard 4: Understanding the cultural dimensions and contributions of the arts. Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

Standard 3: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Standard 2: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology    Standard 5: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Standard 7: Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

Learning Standards for English Language Arts Standard 4: Language for social interaction. Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

Learning Standards for the Arts Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources. Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Independent Learning

Standard 4: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and pursues information related to personal interests.

Learning Standards for Career Development and Occupational Studies Standard 1: Career development.  Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions. standard 2: Integrated learning. Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.

Standard 5: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

Learning Standards for the Arts Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources. Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

Standard 6: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation

Learning Standards for Career Development and Occupational Studies Standard 3a: Universal foundation skills. Students will demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.

Learning Standards for Career Development and Occupational Studies Standard 3b: Career Majors.  Students who choose a career major will acquire the career-specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement, and success in postsecondary programs.

Social Responsibility

Standard 7: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and recognizes the importance of information to a democratic society.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 5: Civics, citizenship, and government. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the united states and other nations; the U. S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

Standard 8: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 5: Civics, citizenship, and government. Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the united states and other nations; the U. S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

Standard 9: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to society is information literate and participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

Learning Standards for Social Studies Standard 5: Civics, citizenship, and government.  Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the U. S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.