Trash and Treasure Note Taking

This video provides an excellent description of how to use " Trash and Treasure Notetaking". It takes the viewer from the beginning when one has to locate the keywords in the question to how to use those keywords to find relevant information.

Opportunity for change

We have just written a new mission statement at my school, which emphasizes 21 century learning. After reading about strategic change, particularly Gibb's article (Gibbs, R. (2003) Reframing the role of the teacher-librarian: The case for collaboration and flexibility Scan 22(3) 4), I felt empowered by the idea of a flexible timetable. I have read about it before but never really grasped the idea properly. Now that we have this new mission statement I believe that it gives me an opportunity to start to discuss this with our new principal who should be starting by next term. The change in leadership I am hoping will give me a chance to change too.
I was thinking in preparation for their arrival I would survey the school community about their opinion, positive and negative, regarding the library program. This, I am hoping, would provide me with data to support the changes I would like to make.
(Forum entry - ETL 504 201230, Module 4 Innovation and Change, 17/04/12)

Graphic Organisers

This term I have been using venn diagrams with Stage 2 to compare and contrast their work on different religions. It has been amazing to see the depth of thinking that a simple graphic organiser can bring about. Who would of thought that the Dreamtime and Hinduism had so much in common!

One area that the children had difficulty with was understanding what the beliefs of the various religions meant. I suppose I will should have worked more closely with them on that.

I have also been teaching them about notetaking. We will delve into that more next term. They are starting to understand what I am talking about. I will give them some more exercises from The Thoughtful Researcher by Virginia Rankin. I used her approach during Term 1, 2012 and I found that it was easy to follow and that most of the children were making adequate notes by the end of the term. The teachers too have asked that we learn about notetaking next term again. I will give them some other exercises with different material. As they become more efficient we can start to learn about referencing and getting info from more than one source.

Thanks to Jame's teaching I am starting to really understand the role of a TL.