During my first semester in the Masters of Education (Teacher Librarianship) course, I have been a part of ETL503: Resourcing the Curriculum. My learning in this subject has primarily focused on developing and evaluating school library collections, collection development policies and legal and ethical issues surrounding collections. Through interacting with the learning modules, academic readings Read More…
Month: May 2021
To weed or not to weed?
Module 5 of ETL503 has been highly informative and highly applicable to the TL’s role. The large section on weeding has had my brain stirring as it is a focus goal during my first year of being a TL. The school I currently work in does not have a library collection and deselection policy. From Read More…
Collection Analysis – A quick snapshot!
Truly, collection analysis seems daunting! Being new to the TL role this year and coming into a library where there was no set collection policy documents or procedures for collection analysis, this module has made me excited and nervous all at the same time. From the Johnson (2018) reading, I can see how both qualitative Read More…
Assessment 3 – Part C: Reflection Practice ETL401
I have been a primary school teacher for the past ten years. I am currently fulfilling the teacher librarian role in a school in south-west Sydney. I am in my first semester in the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) degree at Charles Sturt University, completing ETL401 and ETL503. The subject ETL401: Introduction to Teacher Librarianship Read More…
Inquiry Learning – Barriers and Issues
For this post, I am responding to a discussion based around the issues and barriers TLs face when teaching from an Inquiry based model. The notion of issues and barriers that stand in the way of inquiry learning has been at the forefront of my mind since starting these modules this semester. Background information: I Read More…
Inquiry Skills in the Australian Curriculum – Response to literature
For this post, I am responding to an article written by Lupton (2014). Lupton, M. (2014). Inquiry Skills in the Australian Curriculum v6: A bird’s eye view. Access, 28(4), 8-29. I have been a primary teacher for almost 10 years now and truly, since I have been in the TL role only this year, I have really Read More…
Literacy Perspectives
From my previous post on defining literacy, it is clear that I have always believed literacy belongs in the “English” basket. A set of explicitly taught skills that students engage and use during English lessons. Module 5 (Information Literacy) of ETL401 has allowed me to revisit my definitions of literacy and its importance in developing Read More…
Literacy – What is it?
Module 5 of ETL401 introduces us to Information Literacy – a very jam packed module that breaks down each aspect. Before it goes into detail, the module aims to provide a solid definition of literacy itself. Before reading on, I decided to define what I believe literacy is. Being a primary school teacher for almost Read More…