Project teaching - is it achievable without the school library

摘要

Project teaching is one of the forms for achieving the learning outcomes in a student-directed teaching. The study conducted among the students in a Croatian elementary school from grades six to eight provided the data on information literacy and its role in problem solving in project teaching and the extent to which information technology (computers and printers the children have at home) represents an inhibiting factor for solving the information problem. A competent school librarian teaches the students how to achieve information literacy, which is necessary to efficiently participate in every school project - from raising awareness of information need to presenting the project itself - and information technology offered by the school library, which is crucial for materializing every school project as it is present in all six steps of the so-called Big 6 model, which turn the didactic triangle into a square - are a proof that the school library is an inevitable factor in a student-directed teaching, that is, in realization of every project.