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Assessment 1 Part B

Reflecting on your experiences as a teacher before you became interested in working in a school library, write a 500 word piece about your understanding of the role of the Teacher Librarian in schools.

As a teacher, before becoming interested in working in a school library….
I don’t think there was ever such a time. As a lifelong lover of books, working in a library has always interested me. Why haven’t I followed that interest sooner? I guess I saw the employment opportunities as limited. I needed a profession I could pursue anywhere in the world, including rural or remote Australia, and teaching it was. But when the Teacher Librarian at my school, where I have been for ten years, announced she was retiring, it was too good an opportunity to pass up! Continue reading “Assessment 1 Part B”