BCTLA Information Literacy K-12 Benchmarks Project:

The New 3Rs in Education are

Reading, Research, and Resources

The BC Benchmarks Project uses a three-dimensional model in which strands, benchmarks, and dimensions of student learning serve as a frame for Information Literacy; that is,

• three STRANDS that represent the aspects of all school library programs -- Reading, Research, and Resources, the new 3Rs in Education, are learning outcomes drawn from teacher-librarian and teaching experience, from IRPs, from related documents, and from new understandings about literacies
  
  
• four BENCHMARKS, as opposed to a scope-and-sequence or list of skills to be introduced, reinforced, and so on; that is, within benchmarked periods, content learning outcomes can be matched to what students need to be able to do by for grades 3, 7, 10 and 12
  
  
• four DIMENSIONS of student learning, student  as information seeker, as information processor, as communicator, and as reflective learner
  
  
• one THEME: WINDOWS that portrays the relationship of students to the world in terms of what they know about it and their interpretation