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School Libraries and Information Literacy professional learning

Professional learning workshops 2010

The School Libraries and Information Literacy workshops in provide support for teacher librarians and other library staff. Suggestions for future workshops are welcome. Your regional professional network can also request support and submit ideas for your regular professional learning activities. Contact Colleen Foley.

Workshop flyers

Fiction with a twist
Introduction to Oasis Library 
School libraries for new teacher librarians
Teacher librarians supporting connected learning K-12: Term One
Teacher librarians supporting connected learning K-12: Term Two 
Visual literacy goes online
Web 2.0 tools for IWBs online training module

Fiction with a twist
This School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit workshop explains how to teach inferential reading skills. Participants will 'walk through' the resources for the Term 1, 2010 English Stage 3 and 4 book rap for gifted Stage 3 and 4 readers and writers, Fiction with a twist.  The weekly blog tasks will require students to write short, evocative pieces, and selected students will attend a writing workshop In Term 2. This is not a registered course. However, your participation hours may contribute towards teacher identified professional development for maintenance of accreditation purposes.

Introduction to Oasis Library
This one day introductory workshop for teacher librarians and other library staff provides an overview of the functions and modules of OASIS Library and includes a component on using SCISWeb. Detailed handouts are provided. This is not a registered course. However, your participation hours may contribute towards teacher identified professional development for maintenance of accreditation purposes.

School libraries for new teacher librarians
This one day workshop for new teacher librarians defines the role of the teacher librarian. Creating management plans, setting teaching and learning priorities, and programming to support teaching and learning are the key focus areas in this workshop. These will be scheduled as needed. Contact Colleen Foley if you would like this workshop for your area.

Teacher librarians supporting connected learning K-12 (Term One) - Term Two flyer
This workshop supports teacher librarians in understanding effective pedagogy to support Quality Teaching in 21^st century libraries. Participants will gain an overview of the resources available to support programming by teacher librarians. Teacher librarians will be trained in gathering effective Web 2.0 resources and in the use of Notebook 10, OneNote 2007 and in selecting appropriate digital tools to support effective programming and teaching in the connected classroom. 

Visual literacy goes online
This School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit course revises the visual literacy terminology proposed by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen. It presents a range of superb sites dedicated to visual literacy, which offer online activities for students. It provides participants with a visual glossary, posters, and scaffolds to use when analysing visual texts, such as picture books and advertisements.  In addition, the course suggests easy to use, appropriate digital tools for creating effective visual texts.

Web 2.0 tools for IWBs online training module
In this 10 hour online training module, teacher librarians and other teachers utilise a selection drawn from 16 superb digital tools to support the connected classroom. Using these tools, they resource a specific unit of work. They design teaching and learning strategies for higher order thinking, collaboration and problem solving which support Quality Teaching. Although this can be completed individually as an online module, this would also be ideal for a small group of teachers from the same school or for a teacher librarian network working together after school for 6 x approx 1.5 hour sessions, every 3 weeks over 2 terms. Email elizabeth.chase@det.nsw.edu.au to receive course materials and receive mentoring support. This is not a registered course. However, your participation hours may contribute towards teacher identified professional development for maintenance of accreditation purposes.

Other opportunities

Teacher librarians may also be interested in attending various workshops provided by KLA and cross curriculum areas of Curriculum K-12 Directorate. It may be a good opportunity to collaborate or extend understandings of areas you like to support.

School administrative and support staff may be interested in learning opportunities made available to school-based staff who directly support the work of schools. See a list of available programs, including Working in the library (for SAS staff).

Upgrading Qualifications?
For the full text of an article by Jenny Scheffers on upgrading your qualifications, originally published in Scan 17(3) August 1998, click on the following link: Upgrade your qualifications.

University Courses Information
For a printable summary of university training options provided within New South Wales click on the following link: University courses.

Teacher Librarian Retraining Program

The Teacher Librarian Retraining Program is one of the strategies developed by the NSW Department of Education and Training to meet the demand for teacher librarians.

To be eligible for inclusion, participants must:
·   be qualified graduate teachers
·   be appointed to the position of the teacher librarian in a Departmental school, without approval as a teacher librarian
·   be prepared to undertake the role of the teacher librarian for a period of two years following successful completion of retraining.

ASLA NSW State Conference archive

The School Libraries leading Learning: Armidale 2009 conference, jointly presented by ASLA (NSW) Inc. and School Libraries & Information Literacy Unit as an an inaugural regional conference was held on June 5th. For information and papers visit the conference site.

The School Libraries leading Learning Conference 2008, jointly presented by ASLA (NSW) Inc. and School Libraries & Information Literacy Unit, was a great success. For more photos and news check out the next issue of Scan and visit the conference site. Delegates can also access copies of presentations here. See photos of the conference.

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