Month: February 2022

ETL503 Pre-Study Thoughts, Questions and Reflections

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What does resourcing the curriculum mean?

  • Ensuring teachers and students have access to resources in the physical collection that address and support curriculum content to be studied in school.
  • Ensuring teachers and students have access to resources in the digital collection that address and support curriculum content to be studied in school.
  • Ensuring teachers and students are aware of the resources they have access to that support their teaching and learning
  • Ensuring teachers and students are aware of how to access the resources they have access to through the school library
  • Ensuring the resources selected, maintained and kept in the collection are relevant, accurate, up to date, and reflective of the needs of the school community.

1.3 How might you go about resourcing a topic in the curriculum?

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Choose a level of teaching and a curriculum topic and explore that area.  Consider how you might go about resourcing that topic.

Level: Stage 5

Curriculum topic: Rights and Freedoms

Question 1: What types of resources would you provide?

In order to support the classroom teacher teaching this topic, I would provide a range of fiction and non fiction texts that the library collection has to offer. Picture books in particular can be incredibly useful resources to teach history, as can novels (e.g. Freedom Ride) and graphic novels be.

There are also a plethora of Australian websites and online resources that can be accessed to support and enhance the learning of students completing this topic in stage 5.

In order to provide this support I would put together a resource kit that contains and lists all the texts avaiable to the classroom teacher.

Question 2: How/where would you find them?

My first port of call would be the ever-useful document “Human Society and Its Environment: Guide to Using Picture Books in History K-10“, which provides a diverse and vast range of picture books avaiable for viewing and use in history.

Next, I would consult with the local librarian about appropriate titles, would search the Oliver database for appropriate texts already in our collection, and would further look at bookseller websites and other library catalogues online for texts that address and suit the topic.