Sharon McGuinness, TL Thirroul PS NSW SUBTLE ADVOCACY: How a Library Web Page can reach into the...

Sharon McGuinness, TL Thirroul PS NSW

SUBTLE ADVOCACY: How a Library Web Page can reach into the Community

©Sharon McGuinness, TL Thirroul PS

Teacher Librarians Know students by name Teaches all students across K-6 Can track progress across 7 years

School Libraries Have value Need advocates


Popular Google Image results when searching the term ‘librarian’!


More popular images – do these really represent us?


Now these are more like it!

Justifying Our Role Still a lack of understanding re our role

by both teaching colleagues and parents

We can each do something about it!


Cause for Concern Some states do not employ teacher

librarians in government schools May not have a teacher deployed in the

school library May employ library technicians as an

economic alternative Recent research tells us school libraries

are run down and under resourced


Show, Don’t Tell We can change perceptions by doing

and showing – not just telling Within OUR control and implemented on

a daily basis – effecting change Still need to write letters, articles and

speak to raise awareness of our role Initiate change at grassroots level – at

YOUR school, within YOUR community


Parents Role Parents can play a vital role in supporting

teacher librarians and school libraries and influencing a Principal, a P&C, state and federal governments

Excellent example of three mums from Spokane, Washington who were able to secure $4 million in funding for school libraries across the state in 2008

[ without certified librarians] “Our children were going to be riding an apple cart on the information highway.” http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6590045.html 1/9/2008

Active Advocacy Advocacy: Disseminating

information intended to influence behaviour, opinion and decisions regarding particular issues


Subtle Advocacy A school library webpage can both

advocate and promote the role a teacher librarian plays in the education of students

Not didactic Is engaging Is informing Connects with the school community


Mrs Mac’s

Began as a need to house learning tasksFurther developed to house Book Week activities and linksLater developed to provide information and ideas important to the professional life of a teacher librarianhttp://smclibrary.shaz.googlepages.com


Mrs Mac’s Hotspot

Online Program VS Paper Program Easy access for staff, principal and parents Contains outcomes, tasks, rubrics, supporting and additional informationhttp://smclibrary.shaz.googlepages.com/mrsmac’shotspot


Developed as a useful site for parents – it SHOWS what I teach and how we can work together in educating their children


What to include A school library site must be planned

and have purpose It should be useful to the entire school

community – students, teachers and parents

It should engage the viewer Make your audience want to keep

returning


Engage, Enthuse, Educate Your library site should include your Library

Policy/Management Plan Curriculum based links aimed at students Examples of what you are teaching (web 2

tool as an example) Information Literacy links YOUR TERM PROGRAM! Including links to tasks, assessment rubrics

etc


Online Library Teaching Program

From Term 2 2009 Online Program

Brief outline of task(s), outcomes, relevant links which mirror classroom teaching



Note the outcomes listed and the hyperlinked tasks


Examples of student work - ebooks ( uploaded onto a new site using ‘weebly’ (http://tpslearning.weebly.com )



Stage 3 stop motion animation film examples from Term 3 2009 again on the ‘Our Learning’ site, using ‘weebly’


Links

Examples of web 2 tools students may use, blogs, booklists, research starters


Final Message

A quote to think about...Links to ASLA and The Hub to really inform the school community about our role!

Other School Library Pages

Pendle Hill HS

Amanda Credaro has included links entitled :

•Why is Info Lit important?

•Why do we still need school libraries?

http://pendlehill-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/facilities/library.html©Sharon McGuinness, TL Thirroul PS


Sandy Beach PSAudrey Nay, TL

Note the blog for parents

AND

The blog for teachers

A truly collaborative library site!

http://sandybeachpublicschool.googlepages.com/home



Providing great examples of student learning

Penrith PS, Ian McLeanhttp://penrithpslibrary.pbworks.com ©Sharon McGuinness, TL Thirroul PS


Palmerston District PS, Barbara BraxtonNo longer updated but still an excellent example of what to include – note the quote re the impact of school library staff and collection on student academic achievement.

How To Start? Sign up to weebly – a free web authoring site with its own blog. Uses simple drag and drop elements http://www.weebly.com/

Weebly

Easy to click and drag elements from the top of the page.

How To Start Try Yola, another easy web authoring site http://www.yola.com/


How To Start Or even Wix – another which uses easy drag and drop elements http://www.wix.com/


A powerful tool A school library website / page is

something we can all do to achieve active, yet subtle advocacy.

The Library page should be recognised as a core element of a school’s website

Publishing the Library teaching program places a focus on what a TL does

Advocacy at grassroots level Makes a difference to students, staff and

parents


“An effective TL must speak up and be an advocate of the school library program. By demonstrating effective information use, modelling sound ICT practices and actively promoting lifelong learning, the TL can serve as an agent of change.”

Advocacy: An Introduction http://eduscapes.com/sms/advocacy/index.htm 20/09/09


The Last Word Have a go!

Work towards creating your own vehicle of active, subtle advocacy

We know how a school library makes a difference to student learning.

It’s up to us to demonstrate it to our school communities




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