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 challenging for me, with most of my energy going into organising routines and strategies for managing students' behaviour. Consequently, information skills teaching is at a bare minimum during my library RFF lessons and there is hardly any CPPT 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.

Barbara

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