Dear Diary,
This is a logo of a computer game called House of 1,000 Doors. This game involves opening a door to solve a mystery. The tricky part is when you open a door, it leads to other doors which leads to some more doors...all of which are needed to finish the game. Very much the same as the roles of a teacher librarian.....as you learn a role, it opens up a whole range of responsibilities
Let's open the first door.....Before taking up this course, I have had four years experience of being a librarian. I thought my experiences would be enough to make me a good librarian....but I was wrong....there is so much more I need to learn....the article, “All librarians do is check out books, right?”written by Dr. Purcell about the role of a teacher librarian is one of the first that made me realise how little I know.... that I am not performing all that is expected of a librarian. I also read the views of Dr. Herring but like some of my fellow classmates they have shown more liking to Dr. Purcell's version because I feel that she presented it in a more practical manner.
"It is clear that no teacher librarian could possibly fulfill all these roles at the same time and teacher librarians who MANAGE THEIR TIME EFFECTIVELY prioritise roles according to the current needs of students, staff and parents in the school community."(Herring, 2007)
"Aim to work on a role or goal related task for a length of time -- say, 30 minutes. Unless it’s urgent, move on to another task. If you want to take the task beyond the time slot you allocated it, take a minute to consider the effects of not doing the next task on your list. Can it wait? If so, fine, carry on."
Then in my blog post"Time after Time" I mentioned that we should not be controlled by time but instead we should control time. If we always worry about time then nothing will be accomplished. We need to learn how to collaborate to make our load lighter.
Then the door on TL as acollaborator opens.....After reading "America's Most Wanted:Teachers who Collaborate" I posted both on the forum and my blog a picture of a librarian with a knife in her mouth and wrote this is not the kind of librarian I want to be.The picture totally contradicts what was written in the article mentioned above.
"Her work is of a cooperative nature that requires constant use of all her powers for social adjustment. She needs to understand people and to inspire their confidence in her activities. This is best accomplished by someone possessing steady nerves, an alert mind, a sympathetic and understanding nature, and who is orderly and readily adaptable." (cited in Currin, 1939, p. 23)
I want to be a librarian who rocks.... just like the librarian featured in the video from
" Colorado Highly Effective School Library Programs".
Campbell (2004) from Defining Information
Literacy in the 21st Century quotes “Edward
Owusu-Ansah has suggested calling a halt to defining the term and just getting
on with the business of doing information literacy.”
Then after all those readings, I decided to look at images of IL in google. I thought maybe if a saw a picture I will have a better understanding. In the forum, I posted a picture of a shopping centre with a caption that says Shopping and Information Literacy...it says that the process of library research and shopping is not really that different from each other.
and then there was light......something I can relate to....TL as a teacher should find means and ways to try and simplify concepts/ideas so that students will have a better understanding...thank you to technology!!!!!
I believe that for every role the leadership aspect should come in. It is that role which will provide guidance for outcomes to be achieved.
I believe that for every role the leadership aspect should come in. It is that role which will provide guidance for outcomes to be achieved.
I am still inside that tunnel that I spoke of in my second post....but unlike then I, the tunnel is no longer dark. I do not feel alone anymore because I know that I am not the only one in this journey and the things I have learnt has helped provide some light as well.
References:
Abilock. (2004). Introduction Literacy: an overview
of design, process and outcomes. Retrieved May 5, 2012, from Charles Sturt
University:
http://interact.csu.edu.au/portal/site/ETL401_201230_W_D/page/b185ce53-0264-44d6-00d6-d2458c162ba7
Carol, B. (2004). America's
Most Wanted: Teachers who Collaborate. Retrieved April 30, 2012, from
Charles Sturt University:
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=3ce29032-4fad-4ab5-8634-76dac94a3c5a%40sessionmgr113&vid=1&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=14658043
Effective Time
Management for Teachers. (n.d.).
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http://www.time-management-success.com/time-management-for-teachers.html
Faubl, A. (2004). An
Online Tutorial Taking You Through the Steps of the Library Research Process .
Retrieved 2012, from Google Images:
http://www.mchenry.edu/library/tutorial/StartTutorial.htm
Herring. (2007). Teacher
librarians and the school library. Retrieved 2012, from Charles Sturt
University: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/ereserve/pdf/herring-j.pdf
Highly Effective
School Librarians Create Collaborative Culture . ( 2011, August 2). Retrieved 2012, from You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Kaz6LXu30
Purcell, M. (2010,
November-December). All Librarians Do Is Check out Books, Right? A Look at
the Roles of a School Library Media Specialist. Retrieved March 12, 2012,
from Charles Sturt University:
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ehost/detail?sid=e45634e8-2763-4377-8fe8-0393a978b055%40sessionmgr4&vid=1&hid=18&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=eric&AN=EJ907292
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