STEPS

This section is a complete Information Literacy model based on current pedagogical thinking and learning practices. We have other specific information literacy resources section here. 

Below we have a number of resources related to the STEPS programe.

We have developed a full information literacy programme similar to BIG 6/ SAUCE etc. This model for the Information Process, is specifically based around an easy to remember acronym and using words that children relate to better. This is supported with a range of downloadable resources and online activities to practise skills.

But wait there's more! We have produced a range of resources that means this resource is adjusted for junior pupils, science, technology, social studies etc. (Most areas have their own specific posters and rubrics)

Current educational research has highlighted that pupils are often left to "absorb" information litearcy skills as they research a topic or answers to questions that they have, but because of the lack of practise of skills and careful scaffolding of these skills they struggle.

This means that we should teach information literacy skills the same way we teach thinking skills; with a mixture of skills and context based learning. We should scaffold the skills in isolation carefully, and then help the pupils to use these in genuine learning contexts. There will always be some pupils who can absorb skills more quickly in context, but for many a systematic teaching of skills in isolation, before application in a learning context, is essential.