What the Library can do for you!
My final "Vision of the Future" of Teacher-Librarianship is to advocate for the school library by creating either a blog and/or prezi about all the library services available to teachers at my school and thus their students. I will need to consider what library services to add to my "Vision of the Future", my audience and how I will present each service.
Library Services available to consider:
- Curriculum Resource Centre (CRC) available to all teachers in our school district. Show teachers how to access these resources (example: EBSCOhost)
- How to effectively use our Library OPAC
- Research tools available to teachers and students and teaching researching skills: How to do Research
- Book clubs: highlight books being read and shared. Have students write book reviews and/or recommend books.
- Helpful Web 2.0 tools: highlight and recommend new Web 2.0 tools (example: Powtoon)
- New books: introduce new books added to the library collection and how the new books can be used in the classroom (example: Adrienne Gear's Reading/Writing power books).
- Introduce the importance of Makerspace activities: share what students are making and creating and how they are actively engaged.
- Emphasize the importance of reading and the library.
- Emphasize how important teacher-librarians are to classroom teachers and what teacher-librarians can do for them: 10 things classroom teachers need to know about modern school librarians
References:
Dambruoso, A. (2014, July 18). 10 things classroom teachers need to know about modern school librarians. [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://libraryallegra.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/10-things-classroom-teachers-need-to-know-about-modern-school-librarians/
LArepresents. (2014, February 16). Dr. Stephen Krashen defends libraries at LAUSD Board Meeting. [youtube video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAui0OGfHQY
Makerspace picture. (2014, June 28). Retrieved from http://orchardschoollibrary.weebly.com/library-makerspace.html
Your School Library picture. (2011, May 23). Retrieved from http://timgauntley.blogspot.ca/2011/05/who-needs-school-libraries.html
A good brainstorm of all the important roles and services TLs and Libraries provide. A good list to work from in building your Vision and marketing your space, role and services to your colleagues and peers. A good amount of research, embedding, tagging and linking.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the acronym for Library, so simple but covering so much. Some good advocacy pieces.
ReplyDeleteKrashen's ideas and support for school libraries are such powerful advocacy tools! Your library will be a hub with all of these amazing ideas.
ReplyDeleteIt is so important for T/Ls to advocate for school libraries and to have these libraries staffed by trained teacher/librarians. Classroom teachers need to be aware of how much we can help them, especially now with the new curriculum. T/Ls should take this opportunity to connect with the classroom teachers.
ReplyDelete