Monday, March 2, 2009

Professional Learning 2009 Focus - Our School Library

Our first Professional learning session for 2009 focused on our new initiative 'Developing the Information Landscape'. The purpose of this PL is to work on developing our school library to meet the 21st century learning needs of our students. This is a 2 year contract.
Glynis Shields from the Dunedin Service Centre of the National Library Service co-facilitated this session.




Our library has a lot of purposes:
  • Class visits
  • Issue and return of books
  • Search internet
  • Print work
  • Great place to come at interval and lunchtime to relax and read
  • Conference calls
  • Professional learning meetings
  • After school music
Our first activity was to brainstorm what a school library is today and come up with all the names given to libraries.
What do we want our library to be and do?
Feel like, sound like, look like.
New Zealand School Libraries. Which ones do you think are good examples of what a library should look like?
We did some metaphor thinking and came up with what we thought our library was... here are some of the teachers' ideas




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