The Role of the TL in Resource-Based Learning and Teaching: How Does Access = Success?
Image source: Caps for Sale book by Esphyr Slobodkina (www.capsforsale.org) What constitutes an “ideal” resource collection? How do we assess what “ideal” even IS when we have such a variety of budgets, schedules, student/staff demographics, and access to resources? As Teacher Librarians, it falls to us not only to evaluate, establish and maintain our collection, but also to employ and promote it! (Remember that children’s picturebook Caps for Sale ? That visual comes (above) to mind whenever I think of how a TL has to ‘wear a lot of hats’)! So how do we become resource-based Teacher Librarians? How do we guide our colleagues to use our SLLC resources with their classes? How do we encourage our students to embrace their destiny of becoming the future leaders of collection management?!? (Ok, maybe that last one is a little lofty… but seriously, how do we just get the kids to use the collection?) Image source: https://educationtoday.org.i...