How could the Evidence Guide for Teacher Librarians in the Proficient Career Stage (ASLA, 2014) help beginning teachers understand the TL role and inform their practice?
As a beginning teacher venturing into the realm of teacher librarianship, the AITSL/ASLA Evidence Guide for Teacher Librarians in the Proficient Career Stage (2014) is a document that will be crucial to informing my practice. It takes the standards that I know and have experience working with in the teaching world and informs me of what meeting these standards in the TL profession can, and should, look like. By providing examples of evidence for each standard, it will help to direct and focus my future movements in the role in order to ensure students can reach their maximum potential. 
In this sense, then, they also serve to inform me of what the TL role entails. For example, 1.1, consisting of four dot points, reveals insights into four separate roles of the TL – curriculum planner, manager of spaces to optimise learning in both physical and digital environments, and reader’s advisor (p. 3). These roles are reflected and expanded on throughout the entirety of the document – through 2.3 (p. 7), Standard 3 (p. 9), 4.5 focusing on developing information literacy in the digital sphere (p. 15), and Standard 5, which highlights the core role of the TL as teacher, rather than just librarian. The later reveals the necessity to assess students in the library space in our practice, and offer feedback in oral and written forms.
Of course, these examples are by no means reflective of the complexity of roles the TL fills. Having them on-hand, however, and engaging in deep reading of such documents not only deepens one’s understanding of the roles, but would assist in planning units of work across a range of stages – just as the teacher’s equivalent helps beginning teacher’s and informs their professional practice, both in the classroom and in the community.
Reference List
Australian School Library Association. (2014). Evidence Guide for Teacher Librarians in the Proficient Career Stage. Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. https://asla.org.au/resources/Documents/Website%20Documents/evidence_guide_prof.pdf