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Supporting
Teachers' ICT Curriculum and Pedagogy: On-going Professional
Development
One
way teacher-librarians can have a positive effect on the school
learning culture is by facilitating a series of professional
development workshops on ICT Curriculum. There is a excellent website
called “Literacy with ICT/ A Model for 21st Century
Learning”.
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This website was created mainly for Manitoba teachers to
blog, tweet, and share technological resources but it has some
excellent professional development workshop ideas to refer to. To
name a few; topics like Inquiry Learning, Digital Citizenship, Bogus
Websites, Collaboration, e-Portfolios, and Evaluating Websites are
some of the Mini workshop topics. To get to this site you go to http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca Once in the website you type in Literacy with ICT/ A Model for the 21st Century Learning. into the Search bar. Then go to; For Teachers, then
to Professional Learning, and
then click on PLE (Professional Learning Experiences). If
you decided you wanted to facilitate a workshop on “Teaching
students how to Evaluate Websites” the PLE for this topic provides
links to acquiring information on this topic, How to apply in the
classroom, and suggestions for assessment.
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The
book that was voted “Best professional book of the year” by the
Journal for School Library professionals is Growing
Schools-Librarians as Professional Developers
by Debbie Abilock.
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This book provides suggestions and incite on ways
a teacher-librarian can provide school leadership in technology and
professional development.
Another
way to meet the professional development needs of the teachers within
the school might be to offer a monthly Breakfast BookClub meeting to
talk and discuss latest articles in professional journals relating to
hot issues (similar to a book club). The teacher-librarian could post
the articles and links to the teacher professional magazines or
articles on a blog so that teachers could read the articles online
prior to the monthly breakfast book club meeting. This would be a way
for teachers and the teacher librarian to learn new things and
discuss current topics in the headlines. The teacher-librarian could provide muffins and coffee and it would be a way to bring teachers into the library to collaborate and discuss teaching ideas with technology.
A helpful site to refer to
for monthly updates on teaching with technology and teaching
strategies is to go to The Teacher-Librarian VirtualCafe.http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com
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This website is a great
resource for teacher-librarians to become leaders in their school
communities. One of the options that is available in this wikispace
is a TL chat Live every 2nd Monday of the month.
Here
is a video explaining how to become a part of this live TL chat.
If the teacher-librarian had his/her own school library blog, this may also be a place to discuss and comment on current professional issues and pedagogy.
The teacher-librarian may also have a section in the School library website for staff resources, where the teacher-librarian may provide links to resources on a multitude of topics related to teacher professional development. It is also important to regularly talk to the teachers in the school to find out what they would like to learn more about or have more resources to. Communication is the first step in being a successful leader in providing useful professional resources in the school.
A helpful site to refer to
for monthly updates on teaching with technology and teaching
strategies is to go to The Teacher-Librarian VirtualCafe.http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com 
Denise, that book looks really interesting, thanks for sharing. I like your breakfast idea too-luring people into the library with food is always a great hook. Some other Twitter chats you might want to check out are #21stedchat and #PBLchat
ReplyDeleteThanks, I will check out those Twitter chats! I'm new to Twitter, so I appreciate good chats to follow!
ReplyDeleteWell done post full of good suggestions, links, media and other engaging ways to support your school staff in tech integration and transformation! Your post was well crafted and engaging, especially the super-heroes pick! Overall, a great way to nudge your fellow staff members to try something new and to reach out for support!
ReplyDeleteI looked at the Manitoba site too, so many great ideas! I agree that opening up the lines of communication with staff is step one. It can be discouraging putting things out and never hearing any feed back but I'm keeping at it. If there is one person interested, I've succeeded :)
ReplyDeleteThat book looks like a must-have. Thanks for sharing that! I like your idea about the breakfast morning as well. I think as TLs we need to be creative about how we get a group of staff members together. Sometimes its not easy. I liked how Aaron shared his email that he sent to staff, making it informal and fun is more likely to draw more participants! I think you are definitely on the right track with your ideas!
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