PART A Philosophy Before entering the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) degree, I had a completely different view and philosophy on the role of school librarians. As discussed in my first blog post of the degree “Reflection – Assessment One” (Vitnell, 2021), I did not even consider a teacher librarian (TL) to be a teacher. Read More…
Category: Inquiry Learning
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…