Julia Boulton

St Andrews Lutheran College

Teacher Librarian

Innovation & E-Learning Leader

PYP, the library and the teacher librarian

PYP Guidelines and framework for library and media provision PYP Library/Resource Centre – Issues for Consideration

Does the RC adequately serve the requirements of the PYP and encourage staff/student use?

Is there appropriate budgeting and planning for the maintenance of and additions to the resource collections?

Are there sufficient and up to date reference materials, in the language(s) of instruction, to facilitate individual student inquiry and learning?

How will the librarians work with the PYP teachers and students?

Does the RC contain books, resources, periodicals in the mother tongue(s) of students?

Is the library resource centre equipped with computers and CD ROMs? Is the internet access easily available?

Do students have access to other libraries in the community?

What access do students have to the library resource centre (opening hours, access during the school day etc)

Does the RC contain books, resources and periodicals for staff professional development?

Does the library resource centre have sufficient multi cultural resources including an international collection of children’s literature?

Have the library resource centre staff received appropriate professional development and are they aware of contemporary developments?

Is the library resource centre staff involved in planning the needs of the program

The role of the library in a PYP schoolSupport all learners

Facilitation of inquiry

Education of the community

PYP and the library Learning Powered by your school library

A school’s resource centre is essential to the implementation, maintenance and growth of all key learning areas and their trans disciplinary links as units of inquiry.

Beginnings… Library Essential Agreements – Use of LP, Attitudes,Trans-diciplinary Skills & Concepts

Brochure – Information Services The Junior School Library and the PYP Program

Learner Profile and AttitudesEssential AgreementsConceptsInternational Mindedness

Trans-disciplinary Skills and Essential Agreements

IB and Learner profile Caring: We look after the library and care about other people.Communicator: We show our ideas in many ways.Inquirer: We try to find out new information.Knowledgeable: We learn new things every day.Open-minded:We think about and respect the ideas of other

people.Principled:We do the right thing in the library at all times.Reflective: We think about the books we have read and their meanings.Risk-taker: Try to do your best in all you do.Thinker: We think about different ways to solve problems.Well-balanced: We read all different types of books.

Concepts in the PYP Library

Function How does it work? What is the purpose of the school

library?

Change How is it changing? How are libraries changing in the

21st century?

Form What is it like? What is a book? What is a library?

Reflection How do we know? How can we evaluate information

for accuracy and validity? What can we do to improve the

library and its facilities in the future?

Perspective What are the points of view? What points of view does our library

collection offer? What makes a book a winner?

Responsibility What is our responsibility? What is our responsibility as users of

the library? What is our responsibility to apply

information honestly and ethically?

International- MindednessVariety of resources purchased for the

curriculum – check book lists Listserves and wikisThrough online environments ie: iNETS,

email pals, blogs, global projects

Japanese – blog, skype

IBO “aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.” George Walker, director general emeritus of the IBO, defines an international education as one that offers students the possibility of “discussing major world issues and knowing they can solve problems through cooperation at the local, national, and international level” (Walker, 2002, p. 20-23).

IBO Mission Statement…to develop IM

Role of the Teacher LibrarianLearners and learningTeachers and teachingResourcing the curriculumFacilitating access to the

informationDeveloping the physical

environment

Learners and LearningCatering for a variety of learning styles and

capabilitiesPathfinders, MOODLE pages,Thinking strategies – Bloom’s , De Bono, Thinkers Keys….

Support in the forms of specific focused teaching – search strategies, key words…

Small groups, whole class instruction

Teachers and Teaching

Collaborative Planning sessionsAdditional planning sessions – for

Specialist StaffIn-services (ie Info Lit, Assessment, ICT and IL, Inquiry…)

Incidental collaboration Students – whole class, small group

and directed instruction

Facilitating Access to the CurriculumOnline databases – Gold Coast City

Council Libraries, State LibraryMOODLE (Learning Management System) and Intranet

Oliver - web based LMSLibrary Webpage, blog, delicious siteLibrary opening hours, bulk loans …

Resourcing the CurriculumCurriculum mapping Range of sources – experts, artifacts, online databases, Clickview, Scootle…Use of library management system – Oliver -Reading Lists – UOI, UOI and literacy Additional Languagesand International

literature collection … Brochures – novels and picture books for UOI

and LP and Attitudes

LiteratureFeature booksUOI novels and picture books Recent acquisitionsStudent recommendationsBook displaysFocus displays – on a LP or Attitude or

UOI

Developing the Physical Environment Engaging for

all forms of learners

Bright, welcoming, self directed and caters for different learning needs (small group, individual spaces…)

PYP and the library PYP profiles & attitudes, UOIs - displays

Library policies that reflect IB’s mission – ie Collection Management Policy

Programme of Inquiry (whole school document)

Information Literacy and ICTs – Scope and Sequence documents

Library Essential Agreements

Day planner and term program

Incorporating profiles into library language

Display of PYP library and class units of work in the library.

Planning and assessment tasks

ICT TOOLS and TLs Web 2.0 tools

Wordle http://www.wordle.net/create

Storymapping tool http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/

Bubblus http://www.bubbl.us/

Glogster http://www.glogster.com/edu/

Voicethread http://voicethread.com/login/

Delicious – social book marking http://delicious.com/

and SALC site http://delicious.com/JS_SALC

Examples Voicethread http://voicethread.com/share/515424/

Mindomoto http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=ee92fade88c640edb26c08cc068dcbcc

Animoto http://animoto.com/play/2llMF0PTR4xnoZ1PsKRhFA

Photopeach http://salcjs.edublogs.org/year-4/

Xtranormal http://salcjs.edublogs.org/year-6-2/year-6-term-3/

Resources