I had a huge ‘aha’ moment last week – the first time when I really caught myself thinking like a TL. I have found it challenging throughout this course to shift my mindset from a subject teacher to the TL realm. I was invited to unit plan with a former grade 7 MYP Individuals & Societies team – I know the students, curriculum, teachers, as I taught with this team last year, so it was a perfect fit. The lead teacher was trawling through resources that I had lent her from a unit I had written previously and was bouncing ideas around. All of a sudden, I was applying what I had learnt in modules 5 & 6 about literary learning and was able to suggest a diverse range of texts to support the core unit knowledge and understandings. I can’t say that it was met with elation (and I get this), but undeterred, I am putting together a list of optional texts for students to delve into during the unit. There are some voracious readers in grade 7 (I know these kids!) so I am hoping that a few will draw from the list. I’m not in a TL position at the school, so I need to be sensitive about this, but I was just so pleased I was thinking along these lines! All of a sudden, literary learning made sense!