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ETL 503 Reflective Commentary: Does Context Doth Make Cowards of us All? Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflected that the conscience doth make cowards of us all. For teacher librarians (TL), knowing the context of the school community and its needs and goals is paramount to leading into the twenty first century (Marzano, McNulty & Waters, […]
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Bottom up teacher librarians: model, share and promote Bottom up sustainability is a concept my friend Bob, a geography teacher, taught me about on a trip to a Kathmandu orphanage over two years ago. In the context of Kathmandu, the bottom up approach involved many small projects working with the people so poor the government […]
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The Teddy Bear Wants to Smash Hierarchies? I admittedly was frustrated with the initial reading in this course. I smugly considered myself as a leader already and thought reading theory about transformational (Marzano, Waters and McNulty 2005) and contingent (Bush & Glover 2014) leadership was unnecessary. “If I already am a leader, then what […]
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ETL 504 Module 2 Reflections: Leading Change Tapscott’s Sharing My classmate Kiana posted that sharing is difficult because “Some teachers are afraid of opening their doors to judgment. Others work hard to create learning experiences for their students and want to be the sole owners of their success” She succinctly summed up why teachers are reluctant to […]
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ETL 504 Module 1 Reflection: The Nice Leader I’m often reluctant to take surveys about my “personality” as I don’t feel they are overly useful. However, after being deemed the “nice leader” in an on-line survey about leadership I can relate to one of the criticisms: I need to be liked. While it’s true that […]
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Time for the Aspiring TL to Grow Up! I noticed in our “Introduction” chat that fellow classmates were scoffed at for beginning a teacher librarianship program. I vented in my first submitted blog post and the feedback from Lee Fitzgerald encouraged me to focus on the positive aspects of my work environment and attempt to win […]
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I’ve often thought about inquiry based learning (IBL) and feel like I unintentionally am engaging with it in my own classroom, but I’m often left wondering: what does it really look like? While reseraching the topic, I’ve recognised the cyclical nature of inquiry based learning. By the “end” of the process learners now own new information and ideally […]
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Reflecting on your experiences as a teacher, write a 500 word piece about your understandings of the role of the TL in school. Role #1: Accessing and Assessing Information In my first post I reflected on the IFLA’s report on how information is evolving, noting in the introduction: “The amount of new digital content created in 2011 amounts to several […]
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There is a recent trend in recognising that information specialists will be crucial in the future. This is in part why I’m currently studying to become a teacher librarian. This week I was asked to review a few different research databases: boolean searches, setting up accounts, creating folders and sifting through a plethora of information. Honestly… it sucked! It […]
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