Critical Reflection Before commencing ETL504 my understanding of educational leadership was quite basic, as I had never given it any great, critical consideration. My perception of leadership within schools centred around the principal as the authoritarian, leading from the top, with a flow on effect down to the deputy principal, assistant principals and classroom teachers….
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Part B: Reflective Practice As an existing teacher librarian within a primary school, I believed literary learning to be quite evident within my daily library classes. However, after engaging in the readings and particularly the Literary Learning Program assignment, I understand now that literary learning is much, much deeper than what I initially believed it…
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Part B: Reflective Practice Upon completing ETL503 and particularly this assignment, I have critically reflected on my understanding and learning of resourcing and developing school library collections and how my understanding of these areas has significantly changed. Throughout my reflection I will analyse these key three areas: How the subject has extended your knowledge and…
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Part C: Reflective practice ETL401 has required me to delve into the concept of information literacy, connect my understanding of the past and current information landscapes and critically analyse what the term ‘literate’ now entails in a 21st century society. Being literate can no longer simply be defined as being able to read and write,…
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The Library Learning Path A link to help me (and maybe others) find the IL guided inquiry model used to scaffold inquiry learning. This IL model has been developed by Newcastle Teacher-Librarians and the website contains excellent resources and programming examples/templates to download, use and adapt. You can read more about it here. I will…
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Prior to the commencement of the ETL401 Assignment 1, what I knew of Creative Commons (CC) was completely minimal. Apart from what I knew about copyright and plagiarism from learning about this at the beginning my Bachelor’s degree (how assignments are digitally submitted for the purpose of scanning for plagiarism), I did not fully understand…
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Regardless of their unique qualifications, the role of the teacher librarian (TL) is often perceived in schools by faculty, parents and the community as the person who simply reads picture books, lends out the library resources and may have the knowledge to repair a broken computer. I have found in my experiences working as a…
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