When I commenced ETL504, my understanding of how the teacher librarian can be a leader within the school was limited. My learning goal was to understand the various leadership roles of the teacher librarian with a particular focus on curriculum development (Walmsley, 2020a). Throughout ETL504, I have come to understand the various leadership styles that […]
Category: ETL504
21st Century Learning Spaces – Makerspaces and Virtual Libraries
In ETL504, we were asked to contemplate the various 21st Century learning environments that facilitate inquiry-based learning and critical and creative thinking. The 21st Century learning space of ‘Makerspaces’ has remained a very intriguing concept to me. Prior to ETL504, I had heard of makerspaces but not had a clear understanding of what they were […]
Conflict Resolution – Self Assessment
In Module 3 of ETL504, we were invited to assess our ability to resolve conflict in a professional sense using the self-assessment provided by McGraw-Hill The results of the self-assessment are broken up into different overarching concepts relating to conflict handling; yielding, compromising, forcing, problem-solving and avoiding. The results show you in a graph where […]
Managing in the Info Era
This article written by Geoffrey Colvin draws many parallels to school libraries including: A focus on increasing the efficiency of manual processes – school libraries are consistently finding new ways to adapt resource management tasks to suit a fast-paced modern education system Use of infotech wisely – the role of the Teacher Librarian is to […]
Teacher Librarian as Leader – Initial Thoughts
As I near the conclusion of my Teacher Librarian education, I am now beginning to consider how the Teacher Librarian takes the role of leader within the school. Prior to my Masters degree, I did not even consider the possibility that Teacher Librarians were considered as leaders in the school as my personal experience placed […]
