Professional Reflection Think about responsibility for resource selection. You may like to use one or more of the following questions to write some blog posts. Discuss how the teacher librarian’s expertise and role is different from that required by all teachers. Share ideas on how teacher librarians might effectively collaborate with the school community in […]
Author: Kellie Billingsley
Hi my name is Kellie and I am a busy mum of three young children. I am teaching at St Stephen's School K-12 in Western Australia. I am a full-time English and Drama Teacher and I am starting the role of Teacher Librarian at my school at the start of the academic year in 2022. I will be running the senior library for Year 7 - 12 and also Teaching Library sessions to Year 5 and 6.
ETL503 1.1: Print Books or eBooks?
1. Students need school libraries Organisation. (2018). https://studentsneedschoollibraries.org.au/ Highly important message on this web page! The SNSL is a valuable resource and reminds us as to why school libraries and qualified library staff are still important in education today. I have printed off some of their infographics for my school library before. 2. Most teens prefer […]
A Library Story
Watch A library story at https://vimeo.com/82208025 Write your opinion on the coverage of the role of the TL as presented by Valenza, and the importance of lobbying activities such as this one. I found the video clip provided a useful quick summary of the importance of school libraries and TLs. However, it could have been […]
ETL 401 Assessment 3 Part C: Reflective Practice
I have previously reflected upon the belief that literacy is a skill that students need to function in society, after school. (Billingsley, 2022, Jan 8). Information literacy (IL) is at the heart of lifelong learning, a sentiment that has been echoed in both the Obama and Alexandria proclamations. (Jacobs & Berg, 2011). We only need […]
5.4b Convergence
5.4b Convergence With the continuing explosion of 21st century technologies, if is fair to say that the teacher’s role is adapting and there is an ever increasing emphasis on students needing to be comfortable in using various media. The bottom line is that students need to be literate in all types of technologies. Schools, classrooms […]
5.4a: Information Literacy Models in practice
Fitzgerald, L. & Garrison, K. (2017) ‘It Trains Your Brain’: Student Reflections on Using the Guided Inquiry Design Process. Synergy, 15/2 How might the TL help the school move towards integrated information literacy instruction? What challenges lie in the way of such instruction? How teacher librarians and teachers might encourage students to transfer information literacy skills […]
5.3a Information Literacy Model Analysis – Links to the workplace
Lupton, M.(2014) Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum v6, Access, November. A discussion on the above analysis and the impact of this for the need of an IL model in my own school. Lupton (2014) in her analysis of the Australian Curriculum, recognises that inquiry learning is frequently referred to within many core subject areas, however, […]
4.1b Inquiry Learning
4.1b Inquiry Learning “Inquiry learning is a recognised set of processes, embedded in national and international curricula. It provides an in-context way of achieving the future ready skills present in the Australian Curriculum.” (Fitzgerald and Garrison, 2021, p.16) Inquiry Learning is an actively creative learning approach which begins with an essential stimulus question which is […]
3.3 The role of the Principal and the school executive group – Building support for the Teacher Librarian.
The Teacher Librarian (TL) needs to make the library a visible place within a school. If a TL and library space is helpful to the wider running of a school, a school principal will notice: the TL must become visible to the school leadership team and the wider teaching staff of the school. The support […]
2.5: Teacher librarian in the information landscape
If libraries are to be considered as spaces of information then it is logical that a TL must understand both historical and contemporary roles at play within the information landscape. TL’s need to keep up to date and current with technological patterns and practises. Information platforms are constantly changing and the popularity of particular social […]