scholarly journals University/School Library Collaborations to Integrate Information Technology into Resource-based Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Ray H. Doiron
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
School Library ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Learning Projects

If the goal of teacher-librarians is to work with teachers to develop information literacy, then how do we model this collaboration for pre-service teachers during their teacher education program? This question was explored in a research study involving university researchers, teachers, and teacher-librarians in six elementary schools in Canada. Learning projects arose from collaborations among the pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and teacherlibrarian as they developed IT projects that were integrated into the pre-service practicum. Data were collected on the learning strategies children used and on the collaborative relationship established between the pre-service teachers and the teacher-librarian. This study tracked how pre-service teachers reacted to working with teacher-librarians. Results indicated these projects created authentic environments where pre-service teachers learned the role of the teacher-librarian and how the curriculum development process associated with resource-based learning develops through school library programs.

scholarly journals The Role of Culture and Folk Art in School Library Programming

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Santos Green ◽  
Melissa P Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Research Study ◽  
School Library ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
The World ◽  
Library Programming ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Exploring the practices of teacher librarians in other countries fosters new knowledge, contributing to global communities of practice. The need to equip today’s youth with complex 21st century skills has served as a catalyst for change in the traditional practices of school librarians all over the world. It is this necessary change that led to questions regarding school library practices at an international level and to the need to explore school librarianship on a global level. This research study explores ways program design grounded in cultural understanding, experiences, and ways of knowing the world, are applied by practicing school librarians in Brazil, Russia, and Belize.

Technology

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Rita Gravina ◽  
Helena Pereira-Raso
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Networking Tools

Collaboration is an important aspect of how our world functions today and an element at the core of rich learning opportunities. The role of educational institutions is one that provides provoking settings so that learning is deep and sustained well beyond the classroom walls. Learners are currently in a paradigm where they are able to learn at all hours of the day; they are no longer in a framework where learning is exclusive to a classroom. Teachers and students at The Bishop Strachan School are exploring this through the various uses of teaching and learning strategies and enriching these strategies with Web 2.0 applications. This chapter will present early explorations in the school with Wiki pages, social networking tools, such as NINGs, interactive timelines, and real-time applications, such as Google apps. Each of the cases provides an authentic learning experience for students and moves the student’s work out into the world.

scholarly journals Attitudes and Self-Perceptions of School Librarians in Relations to their Professional Practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lo ◽  
Joyce Chao-Chen ◽  
Dana Dukic ◽  
You-ra Youn ◽  
Yuji Hirakue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Literacy Teachers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
Perceptions Of School

School librarians are not only managers of the school libraries, they are also educators, administrators, teaching consultants, information specialists, and information literacy teachers, etc. Unfortunately, in many countries, especially in Asia, there has always been a lack of understanding on the parts of the classroom teachers and school administration about the role of the school librarians in the public school system. Meanwhile, many novice school librarians do not have a clear understanding of the potential contributions of the school library programmes to students’ overall development process and their achievement, as well as their contributions to students’ overall enquiry-based learning as a whole. Furthermore, very little research is available on the attitudes and self-perceptions of the school librarians regarding their teaching role, in relation to enquiry-based learning for comparison. The study is designed to examine, explore and compare how school librarians in function between Hong Kong, Japan, Shanghai, South Korea, and Taipei, as well as how perceive their own status within the school community, by looking at their relationships with their principals and other classroom teachers.

scholarly journals Strategic Directions and Newer Dilemmas for Teacher-Librarians and School Library Resource Centres

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Ken Haycock
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
School Library ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Library Resource ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Once a leader in the provision of effective school library services, the Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) School Board has seen its intellectual and material assets diminish with growing confusion about the role of the teacher-librarian, particularly with regard to information technologies. The investigator reviewed the current status of school library resource centres, including staffing, resources and use, to identify "revenue-neutral" improvements based on research evidence and best practice. In the course of the review several dilemmas emerged that challenged conventional wisdom regarding the delivery of school library services; these dilemmas are the focus of this paper.

scholarly journals "Single threads woven together in a tapestry": Dispositions of Teacher-Librarian Leaders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Branch-Mueller ◽  
Joanne Rodger
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Generic Qualitative ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This generic qualitative research study examined if and how the dispositions of six exemplary teacher-librarians evolve after a move into a formal leadership role. All of the participants were classroom teachers and teacher-librarians prior to moving into leadership roles in their schools/university or districts. Findings from this study are organized and presented based on the leadership dispositions identified by Kimmel, Dickinson and Doll (2012) in their Dispositional Continua and include descriptors used by teacher-librarian leaders that help clarify each disposition. Further research is needed to create a valid and reliable disposition assessment tool for pre-service and in-service teacher librarians and TL leaders. 

scholarly journals The Role of Abadina Media Resource Centre in Bringing Novelty and Creativity to School Library Services in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadekemi Omobola Oyewusi
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Reading Teachers ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Media Specialists ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Library Use ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Primary Institutions ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This article looks into the role of Abadina Media Resource Centre in expanding school library services in Nigeria. The article revealed the novelty seen in the functions of the Centre especially in the training of qualified personnel for the positions of teacher-librarians, media specialists, reading teachers and other school media personnel in pre-primary, primary and post-primary institutions in Nigeria and organizing of programmes relevant to reading and library use for Nigerian Children. In addition, core activities of the Centre were highlighted and challenges facing the school library media centre were also discussed. Abadina Media ResourceCentre has developed training programmes to produce qualified personnel that will run virile school media programmes in Nigerian schools, teach school media and conduct scientific and reliable researches to extend the frontiers of knowledge in the field.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Partners in Educational Change: Teacher-Librarians and Pre-service Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
Marlene Asselin ◽  
Jo-Anne Naslund
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
School Library ◽  
Flexible Scheduling ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Teaching Ideas

This case study aimed to clarify the role of the teacher-librarian and the nature of the school library program to pre-service teachers. Nineteen pre-service teachers collaboratively planned curriculum with teacher-librarians in their practicum schools. Data consisted of pre- and post-experience concept maps and interviews with all participants. Results showed pre-service teachers (a) significantly increased their knowledge of collaboration, resource-based learning, and information literacy, and (b) learned that collaboration helps refine and extend their teaching ideas. Teacher-librarians identified flexible scheduling and collaborative culture as conditions for curriculum-based library programs. Authentic experiences with teacher-librarians appear to be a promising means of preparing new teachers as partners.

scholarly journals Supply chain collaboration within the Iranian construction industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1437-1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Toroghi Bidabadi ◽  
Mujtaba Hosseinalipour ◽  
Mohammad Reza Hamidizadeh ◽  
Amirhossein Mohebifar
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Multiple Partners ◽  
Positive Results

Abstract Collaboration is an important factor to succeed and increase the sustainability in project management and construction, especially in a construction supply chain (CSC) that includes multiple partners. Although, in recent decades, many changes have occurred in the construction industry, there are still many problems in this area. Therefore, research in this area becomes vital because collaboration is one of the best approaches to improve CSC performance. In this study, collaborative relationship has been found to be affected by three main factors: managerial, financial and structural. However, application of collaboration in Iran is still in its inception. This comprehensive research study focuses on suitable context for implementing the collaboration method. The methodology of this research is based on interviews and a review of previous research, which identifies critical factors and positive results of use in relation to collaboration. Results of this study improve our knowledge about the role of collaboration in a CSC’s performance. Analysis of data shows that managerial factors have the most positive effects on the implementation of collaboration networks in CSCs, followed by financial factors and organizational factors.

scholarly journals The Introduction of School Library Coordinators to Assist Teacher Librarians: A Grass-roots Challenge for Local Government in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasuko Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Efficient Performance ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
Japanese Schools

This paper discusses the role of the School Library Coordinator, a post created by Kawasaki City, Japan local government, in accordance with the legislated introduction of teacher librarians into all Japanese schools. It is difficult for teacher librarians to play the roles of both teacher and librarian simultaneously. They are expected to play the central role in school libraries, to support pupils’ spontaneous learning activities as well as to foster pupils’ imaginative minds.Teacher librarians are also expected to coordinate schools, families and communities to promote pupils’ reading activity by the Basic Plan to Promote Children’s Reading Activity. Kawasaki City local government introduced School Library Coordinators to assist teacher librarians and to complement their onerous duties in schools and society. Although this paper’s research and analysis indicates that Kawasaki City’s innovation of School Library Coordinators has been successful, it is noted that there is potential for more efficient performance by library coordinators in collaboration with teacher librarians.

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