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Teacher Librarian's campaign
Feb 28 2007, 1:59 AM EST
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 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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1. RE: Teacher Librarian's campaign
Feb 28 2007, 3:34 AM EST
How often I have heard stories like this over the years....ignorance of the role TLs can play in student learning....critical thinking! And no support from DET for school principals to shift RFF to the school's part-time allocation.See http://www.nswtl.net/ (some links now outdated) RFF approaches http://www.nswtl.net/info/issues/RFF.htm Some principals have not had the opportunity to develop understanding of the role the T/L can play to increase student learning outcomes by teaching skills in context, collaboratively with classroom teachers. See http://www.nswtl.net/info/issues/RFF/solution.htm The NSW Primary Principal's Association position paper at http://www.nswppa.org.au/library.html which states all RFF activities be provided by an allocation to the school of two hours per week per teacher, thus allowing teacher librarians to implement CPPT; RFF should not be seen as library administration time; other supporting comments there. Federation's support is at http://www.nswtf.org.au/TeacherLibrarians/goodfor.html and http://www.nswtf.org.au/TeacherLibrarians/role.html See also the School Library Handbook and Information Skills Policy Federation's on admin time is at http://www.nswtf.org.au/TeacherLibrarians/admin.html ALL teachers are entitled to RFF. See your Federation rep. You and your principal should discuss the implications of the Australian Library and Information Association statements: http://www.alia.org.au/policies/services.in.schools.html and http://www.alia.org.au/policies/teacher-librarians.html and ASLA's policy on Information Literacy.http://www.asla.org.au/policy/p_infol.htm ...and Learning for the Future 2nd ed. and, of course, the Standards for Professional Excellence for Teacher Librarians http://www.asla.org.au/policy/standards.htm by which your principal can help to set your own professional development goals. Hoping you can come to mutual understandings. The students will be the winners! Georgia Do you find this valuable? |
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2. RE: Teacher Librarian's campaign
Feb 28 2007, 3:55 AM EST
"How often I have heard stories like this over the years....ignorance of the role TLs can play in student learning....critical thinking! And no support from DET for school principals to shift RFF to the school's part-time allocation.Dear Georgia, Thanks for your response and suggestions. I am a bit concerned, though, that my comment may reflect badly on my principal and school in particular. The principal has said that she supports CPPT of information skills, in theory, but because of reduced numbers of students in our school she is not able to fund a part-time teacher to do RFF. So, RFF must fall to the TL. Moreover, like so many schools in NSW, ours has a high NESB population, so a lot of energy in the school goes into supporting basic language skills needs. Do you find this valuable? |
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3. RE: Teacher Librarian's campaign
Feb 28 2007, 8:09 AM EST
Barbara, Your school already has a part-time teacher. See the staffing formula at http://www.nswtl.net/info/docs/staffing2006.htm Find out how they are being used.
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