Tag: Personal Project

The Role of the Librarian in the IB – Day Two

IB, Library, Teaching

TEDTalk – Dawn Wacek

Question

How might mindsets change if the library is seen as the centre of the school?

Statement from Ideal Libraries:
Libraries are combinations of people, places, collections and services etc.

Looking at People, Places & Spaces, Collections (Things), Services.

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Much discussion around how it all fits together.

Takeaway: White board with goals on it! Make intentions visible and measured.

8 Cultural forces that define our learning spaces

Time – How do you organise your time?
Opportunities
Expectations – yours v ‘others’
Routines & Structure
Language
Modeling
Interactions & relationships
Physical environment

Expanded version

Taken from Intellectual Character: What it is, why it matters, and how to get it, by Ron Ritchhart (2002), Jose-Bass Publisher.

The library as a system

How would/could you evaluate your library as a functioning system?
How do you prioritise between systems?
Is your system student/community focused?
How could this perspective change what you already do?

IFLA Guidelines for Schools (p.17)

  • Information environment
  • Instructional and Collaborative space
  • Inclusive Learning Centre
  • Literacy Centre
  • Technological space

Library Spaces, Environments & roles

compiled by Dianne McKenzie

Beacon technology, Meta app.

QUESTIONS

How does your library support learning? How do you want your library to serve you?

What is your context?

Context Map for school libraries – Dianne

Completed Context map

What Do You Value in the School Library?

Top 5

  • Big Picture thinker
  • Leader in Lifelong Learning
  • Upholder of democratic principles
  • Collaborator with Community
  • Literature lover/ Reading motivator
  • Respecter of persons

What is your perception of what your principal most values in a school library?

  • Big Picture thinker – point of intersection
  • Architect of creative thinking
  • Opportunist for outreach

What is your perception of what your Head of Curriculum values most in a school library?

  • Big Picture thinker
  • Curriculum integrator
  • Demonstrator of leadership
  • Collaborator with community
  • Advocate of library services

Individual reflection

Who? Do? Use?

Culminating Projects in the IB

What is the main role of the library in a Culminating Project?

  • Research skills – Just in time
  • On track
  • Reiteration
  • Bookable research appointments online – Scheduler

All about the MYP

  • Another whole subject load – mentor meetings must be in lieu of a cover. Students top three choices of mentor. Support person, not supervisor.
  • Process journal – Managebak, Atlas, OneNote
  • Pilot program – Mentor matching, List of topics (without student names) to teachers – they pick.
  • Project Criterion released bit by bit.
  • Moved MYP to Year 9 because of students dropping second language – and then they don’t get their IB cert.
  • Exhibition of Community Projects at the end of the year. Week 3 Term 3 is exhibition and Oral Presentation.
  • Personal Project – Supervisors are the assessors, Mentor is their helper. Librarian should be ‘redundant’ for students but useful to staff support.

All about the PYP

  • Inquiry started in kinder
  • Exhibition has a focus on PROCESS and OUTCOME – not just outcome.
  • Time allocation to Year 6 in Term 1 (Refresh) and Term 4 (Exhibition) – has a time cost.
  • All other classes have to be in Year 2 and 3
  • Class teachers are supervisors of their own class. ANYONE can be a mentor – usually teachers but could be another adult.
  • LibGuides is a great resource.

International Mindedness

How do we help facilitate this in Australian schools?

Flags, Folklore, Festival, Fashion, Faces, Food, Facts.

Culture – what is culture?

Empathy – beyond oneself. Stories from culture. Put aside the idea that my way is the only way. Have resources that originate from cultures other than ‘mine’. What is relevant to my community?

Skylar – WoW – Wonders of the World

Connection to Culture – embed exposure to language and culture. Who we are? (which is actually very broad once you start digging). Information skills in Prep/ Foundation!!!!

Pakistan story – The cost of a single story.

Think about the information that you given, and where it comes from

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“This is what the discovery of African writers did: It saved me from having a single story.”

“When we realise that there is never a single story then we regain a slice of paradise.”

Library ideas

  • Signage in home/taught languages
  • Games ditto
  • Support subjects in curiculum
  • Venn diagram – text to text, text to self, text to others
  • Multiple stories from one culture
  • National Day celebrations/ displays, NAIDOC
  • Staffing diversity
  • Guest speaker & Author diversity/ Human library
  • Databases – U.S. Google – U.S. Points of View database from EBSCO, JStor, Opposing Viewpoints, Sharing Our Stories series (we’ve got it), World Stories UK,
  • Stream video/tv on NITV
  • Newsbank – foreign language papers
  • Family stories
  • Home visits – families to buy age appropriate books
  • Student stories
  • Share a story/Book drive from international students

Two things I’ve been challenged by so far:

  • The paucity of our collections in reflecting the diverse cultures of our families
  • The possible perception of the library in the Exec.