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I am a virtual beginner teacher with my first career as a librarian. Because of the shortage of teacher-librarians, I have been able to secure a permanent position within three years of qualifying as a teacher. However, I am required to do most classes RFF and teaching RFF has proved to be rather ineffective, with most of my energy going into organising routines and strategies for managing students' behaviour. Consequently, information skills development is at a bare minimum during my library RFF lessons and there is hardly any CPT of information skills. Some of the teachers cover some basic information skills, such as using an index to a book, during reading groups activities. Nonetheless, many of our weaker Stage 3 students (and not so weak students) lack the most basic information locating skills. I think that there is a great need for these children to go to high school equipped with adequate information skills, but to survive in my position, I keep library RFF lessons simple with silent reading time (DEAR), listening to a story, completing a worksheet related to that story, borrowing books.

Team teaching of information skills is essential as they are complex skills for students to learn. Students need as much one on one support as they can get. Moreover, much of the usual classroom structure and rules need to be loosened up so that students have the freedom to wonder around the library looking for resources - hard for a teacher on their own to allow this.

['Dump and dip' refers to the lamington approach that RFF in the library resembles. Dump them at the door, preferring sugar frosting to anything real and meaningful.]


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tlinks 		Latest page update: made by tlinks , Mar 6 2007, 8:04 PM EST (about this update About This Update tlinks Lamington approach, reminiscent of the 70s, before release of library policy and information skills began to be understood - tlinks

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