Transcript Good News for Teachers - Teachers Connecting with Teacher

 Concerned
about student achievement?
 Lacking time to meet curricular and admin
demands?
 Inexperienced in new technologies?
 Need a helping hand?
 Want to know education’s best-kept secret?
The Information Literacy
And
Children’s Literature
Specialist
The library staff don’t own the library.
 You
can recommend and request resources
 You
can book the library as a reading area or
teaching space
 Consider
centre
the library as a research and learning
The best resource in the library is the teacher
librarian. Teacher librarians can:
 Help
you plan a guided inquiry
 Help you solve a technology problem
 Find professional research
 Answer a reference question
 If we can’t do it, we can find someone who can
 Obtain materials from other libraries
 Celebrate your students’ work
 Have an overview of the whole school curriculum
Advanced planning is a good thing.
 It
ensures that we have resources to suit your
needs.
 It gives us time to prepare links to appropriate
websites.
 Experienced librarians can help you to know what
will work.
 We can help to create assessment that considers
both PROCESS and PRODUCT.
The library provides both print and digital resources.
 Sometimes
print resources are better suited to
students’ needs.
 Students need to be taught how to read, question,
evaluate and compare information from internet
sites.
 Younger students need child-friendly search
engines.
 We can help you select websites best suited for
your students’ use.
The teacher librarian can provide support with
technology.
 Location
and availability of equipment
 Use of scanners, camera, video cameras
 How to use programs that kids have access to eg
Kidspiration, Kidpix, Ziptales
 Keep you in touch with the latest PD opportunities
We can help your students’ performance on reading
tests.
 Matching
readers to books
 Giving book talks
 Finding literature to support your units of work
 Providing favourite or new authors
 Meet remedial or extension reading needs
 Need
someone to share the glory or shame of
a new unit?
 Need someone to listen to you brag about a
fantastic lesson?
 Need to pick someone’s brain?
 Need to team teach a new methodology or
subject area for moral support?
Get to know your Teacher Librarian!