Teacher+Librarian

=Teacher Librarian=

//Teacher Librarian// means the library professional working with children and young adults. This magazine covers current issues such as collaboration, leadership, technology, advocacy, information literacy, and management.

The hot topic in this recent issue talks about the process of how teacher librarians, who serve as technology leaders in school communities, transform the school library and computer lab into a Learning Commons. Their community will then value that school library media center as a place to learn. There is a funny place within the page using the lyrics to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" to encourage librarians to have positive attitudes toward this profession and to have an eye on the future as we are building learning commons for our communities.

Wen

The idea of the learning commons is such a great way to provide students with all they need to be successful researchers in one location. Having the integration of so much technology with the library does definitely put more demand on the school librarian. It takes so much extra time and training to fully understand the technology and how to successfully get it into the hands of students and teachers. The song is a great choice for a theme song for today's school librarian.

Shari

The //Teacher Librarian// journal focuses a lot on how the librarian can work with students effectively and intellectually. The journal contains a lot of information on assessment and learning techniques. There are articles on advocacy and curriculum so that teacher/librarians can stay up to date. On the edges of some of the pages are information on different book genres like graphic novels, young adult fiction, picture books, and even non-fiction for kids. A section of the magazine also lists the bestsellers for librarians to take note of and have in their library. One article that seemed like a hot topic was called //The Big Think: Reflecting, Reacting, and Realizing Improved Learning.// It talks about the new way of learning and teaching that we should be focusing on to create the type of individuals who have the necessary 21st century skills to be employed. There are nine new metacognitive strategies that we need to work on using in our classrooms and working with our students in the library.

Ashley

This is an area that is of great importance for today's librarian. Knowing ways to assess the imapct the library is having on students performance is essential, but can be difficult. This is an article I will be reading and hoping to gain ideas to use in the future, especially the nine new meta-cognitive strategies.

Shari

//Teacher Librarian// focused a lot on inquiry learning and internet resources. They talked about using inquiry learning to get students to write fan fiction, graphic novels and books of their own. The writing challenges were designed to get students, school wide, involved in learning story processes. There was also a big section on internet and technology resources. They stressed co-curricular activities and getting staff support for librarians. The also included author interviews and stressed their importance in encouraging young readers.

Tara

I bet the students really responded to this project. Writing their own graphic novels would be a great way to publish he research they collected. I really like the assignments that cross curriculum.

Shari