Workshop+Content+(Summer+2011)

= Workshop Content =

Project ENABLE will provide professional development for improving library and information services to students with disabilities for New York State school librarians and their general and special educator teammates in week-long workshops during the Summer of 2011. The outline of this workshop is provided below. Those school librarians who attend will lead similar workshops in their home districts. The project team will make the workshop content available on an online training site in the Fall of 2012.

Our presentation focuses on two elements of 'Creating an Inclusive Library Program':
 * Planning and developing services, resources, skills instruction, facilities, technologies for your library.
 * Selecting/adapting library media and materials for and about students with disabilities

**INTRODUCTION **

**__Day 1 - Awareness __**


 * 1) Types of disabilities: practical guidelines for recognizing and understanding many disabilities
 * 2) Terminology
 * 3) Disabilities laws and policies
 * 4) W3C and 508 accessibility standards & resources
 * 5) Universal Design for Library Facilities
 * 6) Universal Design for Learning and Library and Information/Instructional Resources

**CREATING AN INCLUSIVE LIBRARY PROGRAM **

**__Day 2 - Self-Evaluation & Planning __**


 * 1) Evaluating library programs and services
 * 2) Evaluating accessibility of library programs and services
 * 3) Designing/modifying library facilities to minimize physical barriers for students with disabilities
 * 4) **Planning and developing services, resources, skills instruction, facilities, technologies for your library. **
 * 5) Establishing library policies, processes, procedures (collection development, technology selection, etc.).
 * 6) **Selecting/adapting library media and materials for and about students with disabilities **
 * 7) Selecting/evaluating a range of assistive technologies.
 * 8) Developing an Action Plan for Creating an Inclusive Library program

**__Day 3 - Program and Instructional Service Preparation __**


 * 1) Planning / Modifying Library Services for Students with Disabilities
 * 2) Planning / Modifying Information skills instruction for students with disabilities
 * 3) Collaborating with special education and classroom teachers
 * 4) Understanding and determining the relevant role of the teacher-librarian in the IEP process.
 * 5) Creating lesson plans

**__Day 4 - Program and Instructional Service Implementation __**


 * 1) Implementing Library Services for Students and Teachers with Disabilities
 * 2) Implementing Information skills instruction for students with disabilities
 * 3) Developing IEP goals and objectives for students with disabilities in your school.
 * 4) Motivating students with learning disabilities
 * 5) Classroom management strategies for all students.

**DELIVERING CONTENT TO LOCAL COLLEAGUES / WRAP-UP **

**__Day 5 - Preparing Teams to Provide Local Training __**