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Is a Library IMPORTANT?

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Is OUR Library IMPORTANT?

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YES!

  • act as a resource centre
  • a variety of resources are available to all
  • a common area open to all; for many purposes

What is MY role?

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  • Collaborate with colleagues
  • Community outreach
  • Resource Expert
1.
- Networking to connect with other school libraries and bring departments together with-in the school
- Team Teaching - creating and implementing units/lessons

2.
A holistic cross-cultural perspective
making resources available to students; encouraging them to use all media available to them; ie. books, net

3.
Rich information and best tech.
Introducing a flexible physical and virtual learning environment

Our Library Today

Level 2

  • Building partnerships
  • Valued but not seen as central to the school's purpose
  • Scarce additional funding
Building partnerships: at the moment we are seen in team teaching as an add-on

Where we want to be...

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Level 3

  • Central to learning
  • Involved in School Leadership
  • A financial protocol in place for new titles and replacement costs
Central to Learning -
Central roles in instruction
Collaborative teaching
-integration of classroom and library instruction
Part of the culture of the school
Digital Citizenship
Project based learning
collaborative intelligence

How do WE get there?

  • More professional development
  • More co-teaching release time to effectively plan
  • Administration support in obtaining funding
More Professional Development:
for all of us to learn to use the library together,
for technological advances

Administration Support
by helping to collect supporting data and to go to the board when we need extra funds

The Sky is the Limit!

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