ETL504 Hopes and Dreams

This subject advertises that it will be about leadership for teacher librarians. It is my hope that I will learn techniques that I can use to help my teacher colleagues engage in meaningful collaboration with me and my information colleagues, as well as some that may help me to work productively with the school leadership to ensure that the library program contributes to and helps to steer the strategic directions of the school as a whole. I hope I will come to recognise and more fully understand the needs of the school leadership and how I and my colleagues can contribute to the success of the whole school community.

Previous subjects have pointed out the importance of the role of the teacher librarian in curriculum leadership and I am looking forward to learning and implemented techniques to accomplish this. I wonder if I will learn more about the system-wide “bigger picture” and where the school library fits in. I wonder if there will be techniques considered for leading and managing other staff in the library setting, as this is an area I feel I could develop quite a bit.