The teacher-librarian (TL) utilises the servant leadership style approach to proactively facilitate and provide ongoing information and digital literacy training to support teachers in integrating the resources into their teaching practices. This could be collaboration on building online research lessons or providing workshops for teachers to learn how to integrate the digital tools (Coetzer et al., 2017).

Co-teaching is another opportunity for the teacher librarian to serve as a teaching partner and guide classroom teachers in real-life situations by modelling how to teach critical digital literacy skills so teachers could facilitate the lesson in future. TL can mentor teachers by providing them with knowledge and skills on using library databases, digital tools, and resources to improve their planning and strategies in teaching information literacy (Koh et al., 2022).

TL is a digitally literate educator who can guide teachers through the complexities of the 21st-century digital world. The school community will benefit from understanding and navigating the ever-changing digital platforms.

References

Coetzer, M. F., Bussin, M., & Geldenhuys, M. (2017). The functions of a servant leader. Administrative Sciences, 7(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci7010005

Koh, K., Ge, X., & Petrella, J. B. (2022). Librarian-Teacher Co-Teaching and the Role of School Librarians in Facilitating Inquiry and Maker Learning. School library research, 25. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1348949.pdf

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