Creating a differentiated program that supports the learner curriculum, teacher, while incorporating Information Literacy, ICT and now digital Technologies, and encouraging a love of reading, is no easy feat. Challenge Accepted! To succeed in my new challenge I need support. The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) Evidence Guide provides examples to give focus to how […]
Category: Professional Development Reflections
Always better to give a ‘High 5’ than to flip someone ‘the bird’
After listening to the very compelling and inspiring keynote from Karen Bonanno, at the ASLA Conference in 2011, I have been deep in reflective thought. Some see our profession as the Invisible Profession and even Scholastic has been know to say that TLs are an endangered species. Bonanno referred to the The Five Finger Plan, […]
Are School Librarians an Endangered Species?
I agree with Karen wholeheartedly, when she says “you will only be and endangered species if you allow it to be”. This is a profession that some see little value in, people are very capable of making up their own minds from their own preconceptions or experiences. We are not doing our students or […]
We are the Keeper of the Keys to the Future….
A friend of mine shared this on Twitter this morning. Thanks Garreth Wigg! https://www.theedadvocate.org/librarians-key-future-ready-schools/ Although, I have been a Librarian-in-Training for the past 3 and half years, I can see the potential I have in the profession. I have come such a long way in this time, I also have so much to learn. It […]