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Teaching is an Exercise in Life-Long Learning and TLs can Help<\/strong><\/p>\n Like any other profession, teaching is more than just a skill set occupation, meaning that the art of teaching itself is a skill but it is also a career of on-going, continuous learning, both in the content area of expertise and in the pedagogy of how best to get kids to learn.\u00a0 Because knowledge is constantly evolving and the sum total of information related to a particular subject area is improving, refining and being added to, Professional Development, like Professional Development in other professions, is used to constantly keep teachers up-to-date with their areas of expertise, and Teacher-Librarians (TL) can be there to help.\u00a0 Often this is related to TLs staying up to date on current trends in pedagogy or curricular changes and developments, but it also includes opportunities to stay abreast with the current changes in \u00a0subject fields, such as the latest in genome theory for biology or new theories and evidence related to the foundation or expiration of ancient societies.\u00a0 Teaching is a constant exercise of life-long learning and it is that philosophy; that people will always be life-long learners, regardless of whatever occupation our students may grow into, that often drives and promotes our practices and lessons in our classrooms.\u00a0 TLs are in the unique position to foster life-long learning with not only the students, but the staff as well by facilitating opportunities to share and debate professional topics.<\/p>\n What Can Teacher-Librarians Do to Help?<\/strong><\/p>\n Teacher-Librarians are in the unique position of being that collector of knowledge within a school setting.\u00a0 Their particular skill sets involving a cross-curricular knowledge base, the ability to vet, catalogue, and share appropriate resources that can be supported in the Learning Commons and the staff room.\u00a0 Teachers who are challenged with new curricular expectations can find assistance in a TLs who can help with alleviating or expediting some of the necessary \u201cprep work\u201d by directing them towards resources so that teacher efforts can be concentrated on working with student needs and implementing new practices.\u00a0 Often it is the TL who is the first to find a particular helpful resource, while maintaining a site of useful and vetted research sites for school staff and students.\u00a0 In this sense a TL can also become a curator of teacher\/student friendly online resources.<\/p>\n Most importantly, Teacher-Librarians can facilitate discussions and foster \u201cbottom up\u201d professional development.\u00a0 Being a TL does not mean that one is just there to serve the educational needs of the students.\u00a0 TLs can be there to host and moderate professional online discussion boards or blogs, maintain a \u201cstaff room library\u201d or even encourage opportunities to meet outside of the school setting to connect and share ideas, practices and experiences with each other.\u00a0 The school learning commons is a central hub for most schools and it is the ability and willingness to assist, share ideas, resources, and facilitate discussions or professional inquires that falls well within the \u201cwheelhouse\u201d of the modern Teacher-Librarian.<\/p>\n Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n Fullan, Michael.\u00a0Leading in a culture of change<\/em>. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.<\/p>\n Henri, James, and Suzette Boyd. “Teacher librarian influence: Principal and teacher librarian perspectives.”\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide<\/em>\u00a08 (2002): 1-18.<\/p>\n Orr, Greg. “Diffusion of innovations, by Everett Rogers (1995).”\u00a0Retrieved January<\/em>\u00a021 (2003): 2005.<\/p>\n Riedling, Ann Marlow, Loretta Shake, and Cynthia Houston.\u00a0Reference skills for the school librarian: Tools and tips<\/em>. ABC-CLIO, 2013.<\/p>\n Scheirer, Bev. “The changing role of the teacher-librarian in the twenty-first century.”\u00a0Acedido em<\/em>\u00a03 (2000): 16-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teaching is an Exercise in Life-Long Learning and TLs can Help Like any other profession, teaching is more than just a skill set occupation, meaning that the art of teaching itself is a skill but it is also a career of on-going, continuous learning, both in the content area of expertise and in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libe477b\/files\/2020\/10\/lucy_librarian_is_in-251x300.jpg\")
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