Weldon Valley School has adopted the following Information Literacy and Technology Skills Standards for Grades K-12:

• Students as Knowledge Seekers - The student constructs meaning from information.
• Students as Quality Producers - The student creates a quality product.
• Students as Self-Directed Learners - The student learns independently.
• Students as Group Contributors - The student participates effectively as a group member.
• Students as Responsible Information Users - The student uses information responsibly.

  Because we live in an information-driven global society, our students must be able to solve the numerous information problems successfully that they are faced with daily. The Weldon Valley School Library recommends the use of the Big Six Strategies for helping students develop information problem solving skills. The Big Six is an information literacy curriculum, an information problem-solving process, and a set of skills which provide a strategy for effectively and efficiently meeting information needs. It can be used whenever students are in a situation, academic or personal, which requires information to solve a problem, make a decision or complete a task.

  For more information about the Big Six:

  • Teaching Information Literacy: The Big Six Skills Approach to Information Problem Solving
  • Information Problem Solving - "The Big Six"
  • The Big Six Home Page and e-Newsletter
  • What is "The Big Six"?
• Students as Competent Technology Users - The student understands the basic operations and concepts of technology.

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