MyProfessional

Learning Plan

“The more you know, the more you know you don't

know” Aristotle

This is the first

Professional Learning

Plan I am completing

as a teacher-librarian,

and follows one part-

time semester of

study, and 20 hours of

placement in a

primary school library.I come to the teacher-librarian profession as an early childhood teacher with a passion for children’s literature and literacy teaching. This is where my strengths lie.

But I have discovered that the library profession is about so much more….

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What have I already experienced?

• Re-shelving, checking books in and out and cataloguing new books.

• Promotion of reading.

• Assisting students in book selection.

• Research skills lessons (book-based).

• Lunch time in the library.

• Assisting teachers to gather resources.

• Book Week events.

• Working ethically and safely online. I have learnt a lot in this area, particularly during the production of this blog.

What do I need to experience?

• Everything ICT!

• The inclusion of ICT in the library including digital texts and safe internet use.

• Web 2.0 and social media to promote the library.

• Contemporary information literacy teaching.

• Librarians as leaders in the school.

• Effective policy development

I have identified 3 major areas of learning• ICT and Web 2.0 skills

• Information literacy.

• Leadership, Management and Policy.

What have I already learnt? •How to create a blog. •How to use Google + and associated media. •The types of social media which are currently popular. •The power of social media as an educational tool.•The relationship between library programs and ICT (libraries are not just about books). •The complex legal and ethical nature of working in the online environment.

What are my goals? What do I need to

learn? •Continue to expand my ICT skills. •Develop enough confidence in Web 2.0 that I feel I could show others what to do. •Understand how these new skills can be transferred into real library contexts. Can I find examples of librarians using blogs and social media successfully in their school program?

Where can I learn this?

•Continue to work with Web 2.0 for both professional and personal purposes as a way of building confidence and skills – doing seems to be the best way of learning (This slideshare is just one example!) •Seek out placement in a library that is using ICT in their program in a significant way. •Seek out library blogs which discuss these concepts/ offer examples and follow these.•Read widely.

ICT and Web 2.0 Skills

What have I already learnt?

• Information literacy is fundamental to educational goals in the 21st century.

• The school library can play a central role in developing a culture of inquiry-based learning and successful information literacy in the school.

What are my goals? What do I need to learn?

• What are the best approaches to teaching information literacy?

• What does school-wide integrated information literacy teaching look like in action? What is the teacher-librarian’s role?

Where can I learn this?

• Inquiry-learning course to be completed Semester 2, 2015.

• Seek out placement in a school which is successfully integrating an inquiry-based learning program throughout the school.

• Personal learning – what can I read and watch to learn more?

Information Literacy

What have I already learnt?

• Effective leadership is fundamental to the TL’s role.

What are my goals? What do I need to

learn?

• What does a TL acting as leader look like?

• What do effective policy documents look like?

• What is the process for maintaining up-to-date policies?

Where can I learn this?

• Seek out placement where TL is behaving in a leadership role.

• Seek out placement where policy documents are contemporary and complete. Observe how process take place for managing these policies.

Leadership, Management and Policy