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Teacher Support for Subject Study in School Libraries: A Case Study on the Faculty for Teachers for Subject Learning in School Libraries in Japan
No full textAlthough school libraries are found in all elementary, middle, and high schools in Japan, 40% of schools nationwide have 11 classes or fewer wherein the appointment of librarians has been suspended currently; moreover, 6,838 schools have neither appointed nor assigned school librarians. Subject learning necessitates collection and usage of appropriate materials and requires specialization in the school education system, such as the use of curricula. Proper staffing alone is not adequate to resolve these issues. For the contemporary world with rapidly developing information devices, this paper proposes school library management methods involving improvements such as the use of reference devices by employing information and communication technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is not limited to personnel assignment, through investigation into the roles played by the human staff
What is Important for Survival?: The Analysis of a School Librarians COVID-19 Blog Post Corpus
No full textThis paper examines blog posts shared on a popular school librarian association website. Posts were written by school librarians, school library supervisors, book authors, and school library educators in various settings. The website posts were searched using the term COVID-19. The search returned 89 results written between March 2020 and June 2021. The analysis focused on the topics that were mentioned the most, according to the categories associated with the blog posts. A review of how the posts evolved is also presented. Results suggest that the most important topics that the readers of the blog needed to endure the pandemic included student engagement, teaching models, leadership, and advocacy
Walking a Mile in Their Shoes: Empowering Learners Through A Human Library!
No full textMany different events and experiences shape our lives. Everyone has their own unique story. Just like a book, the stories inside people are fascinating! When personal stories are shared with others they can become extremely powerful resources. They provide our students with a wonderful opportunity to connect with diverse members of the school community and beyond, communicate with them, build relationships, empathise, explore, understand and learn. By participating in a ‘Human Library’ students acquire life skills, widening their understanding of others and the world. Your school library should have one! Students are hungry for real life experiences and ‘living books’ inspire them
Empowering Students for a Digital World: Global Concerns, Local School Evidence and Strategic Actions
No full textThe research reported here is an evidence-based development project to identify students’ perceptions of how confident and competent they are in learning and working effectively in an online world, and to develop local school strategic actions. It specifically examines students’ knowledge about a range of digital competencies for online learning and living, and their confidence in using these. From a constructivist perspective, understanding their conceptions of their digital world and their confidence with engaging in it provides a window for ensuring that school libraries prepare students for this world. Available literature consistently shows that for today’s young people, the digital environment is already a deeply embedded and pervasive aspect of their lives and the basis for their connections, communications, and community. Accordingly, this paper will present the findings of a school-based qualitative research study that, from the students’ perspective, seeks to understand how confident they are with being safe and productive in the online world. It will also show how these findings translate into strategic actions for the local school
The Media and Information Literacy Program of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School
No full textThe study was conducted to measure the effectiveness of the Media Instruction Program (MIP) of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School through the MIP Modules taught to selected Grade Five students enrolled for SY 2015-2016. Students were given a pre-test at the beginning of SY 2015-2016 to measure their information literacy skills. After attending MIP sessions at the Katigbak Educational Media Center (KEMC), they were given post-test to measure the difference in their pre-test and post-test scores. There was an observed increase and significant improvement in the test scores of Grade Five students after they have been exposed to Media Instruction Program
Working in partnership to embed Information & Digital Literacy Skills into TeenTech events and Awards to empower pupils, teachers and librarians
No full textThis paper discusses the partnership that Cilip’s Information Literacy Group (ILG) in the UK has been developing over the last 18 months with TeenTech, an award winning, industry led initiative that focuses on helping teenagers understand the career opportunities available within Science, Education and Technology. It focuses on the role of the ILG’s School Representative as co-ordinator of a team of school librarians and university specialists who were tasked with; supporting the group’s new Information Literacy Award creating resources and opportunities to encourage teacher and pupil use of libraries, and with supporting pupil development of information and digital literacy skills within the area of science, engineering and technology across all of the award categories
English Extensive Reading in the School Library with the English Department
No full textIn this study, we describe how the school library collaborated with the English Department with English Extensive Reading (EER) programs. In many schools in Japan, English books are kept in the English teachers‟ room which makes access to the books difficult for students because these rooms are locked when the teacher is not around. We discuss how placing the English books in the library have helped both students and teachers in conducting the EER lessons and how teachers became a closer team through EER programs. We also explain other effects that this collaboration between the teacher librarian and the English teachers has brought, which was making an environment where collaboration can occur much easier in the whole school
New Teacher-Librarians Rock : Checking in and Looking back on the first years of being a Teacher-Librarian
No full textThis study contributes to our understanding of the early experiences of teacher- librarians and brings in the framework of possible and provisional selves as a lens to examine teacher-librarian identity. Several themes emerged to help us better understand how new teacher-librarians experience the first three years as teacher- librarians. Participants told us their strongest memories included professional development, advocacy, professional change, making the library a safe space focused on learning, supporting staff and students in taking risks, and collection development. Barriers and challenges included technology, library time and budget cuts, making changes in the library, and sharing the TL position with another teacher. We saw these teacher-librarians modeling, presenting, providing evidence, creating safe learning spaces, helping staff take risks, becoming more confident in their abilities, and meeting the needs of their school community. They consider the importance of balance, letting things go, focusing on those teachers who want to learn with them, and working with administrators to make things happen. Valuable previous experiences included classroom teaching experience, dispositions, understanding the school context and connecting with administrators. Participants offered several key pieces of advice: promote, advocate, connect, organize, read, build relationships, and know your administration
Representations of Reading in Brazilian Contemporary Children’s Literature
No full textThis article is part of a broader study that aims at comparing the role assigned to reading in terms of fictional creation for children and youngsters in Brazil and Argentina from 1991 to 2012. The results here presented are exclusively referring to Brazil. A sample of 10 books taken from publishers catalogues who print child/youth literature was analyzed. Based on Serge Moscovici’s concept of social representation it was possible to demonstrate that less than half of the narratives represent the daily reading still linked to a pedagogizing concept of the child genre, with openly utilitarian purposes. However, a significant number of narratives show good aesthetic level, presenting reading and the formation of readers in a thought-provoking and problematizing way
The School Library as a Bridge to Literacy: A Garden of Words
No full textAdministrators and teachers have the expertise to utilize theoretical and practical experiences in dealing with students but are unaware of the vital role of parental involvement in students’ academic achievement. The purpose of this research was to explore whether the impact of the implementation of a literacy garden could improve reading level of fourth grade boys at Northside All Age School. Data was obtained using the quasi experimental design. Fifty-three students from two classes grade four at Northside All Age were used. The study was done after a survey was conducted among children in grade four. Data were analyzed using charts and descriptive statistics. . Some of the findings revealed that the implementation of literacy garden has a positive effect of literacy at grade four. The reading level of the boys increases as their self-esteem increases. It was recommended, based on the findings that parents should be more involved in their child’s life at school. That both teachers and parents should motivate slow readers and also that teachers use teaching strategies that will help children who are slow readers