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Julia Boulton
St Andrews Lutheran College
Teacher Librarian
Innovation & E-Learning Leader
PYP, the library and the teacher librarian
PYP Guidelines and framework for library and media provision PYP Library/Resource Centre – Issues for Consideration
Does the RC adequately serve the requirements of the PYP and encourage staff/student use?
Is there appropriate budgeting and planning for the maintenance of and additions to the resource collections?
Are there sufficient and up to date reference materials, in the language(s) of instruction, to facilitate individual student inquiry and learning?
How will the librarians work with the PYP teachers and students?
Does the RC contain books, resources, periodicals in the mother tongue(s) of students?
Is the library resource centre equipped with computers and CD ROMs? Is the internet access easily available?
Do students have access to other libraries in the community?
What access do students have to the library resource centre (opening hours, access during the school day etc)
Does the RC contain books, resources and periodicals for staff professional development?
Does the library resource centre have sufficient multi cultural resources including an international collection of children’s literature?
Have the library resource centre staff received appropriate professional development and are they aware of contemporary developments?
Is the library resource centre staff involved in planning the needs of the program
The role of the library in a PYP schoolSupport all learners
Facilitation of inquiry
Education of the community
PYP and the library Learning Powered by your school library
A school’s resource centre is essential to the implementation, maintenance and growth of all key learning areas and their trans disciplinary links as units of inquiry.
Beginnings… Library Essential Agreements – Use of LP, Attitudes,Trans-diciplinary Skills & Concepts
Brochure – Information Services The Junior School Library and the PYP Program
Learner Profile and AttitudesEssential AgreementsConceptsInternational Mindedness
Trans-disciplinary Skills and Essential Agreements
IB and Learner profile Caring: We look after the library and care about other people.Communicator: We show our ideas in many ways.Inquirer: We try to find out new information.Knowledgeable: We learn new things every day.Open-minded:We think about and respect the ideas of other
people.Principled:We do the right thing in the library at all times.Reflective: We think about the books we have read and their meanings.Risk-taker: Try to do your best in all you do.Thinker: We think about different ways to solve problems.Well-balanced: We read all different types of books.
Concepts in the PYP Library
Function How does it work? What is the purpose of the school
library?
Change How is it changing? How are libraries changing in the
21st century?
Form What is it like? What is a book? What is a library?
Reflection How do we know? How can we evaluate information
for accuracy and validity? What can we do to improve the
library and its facilities in the future?
Perspective What are the points of view? What points of view does our library
collection offer? What makes a book a winner?
Responsibility What is our responsibility? What is our responsibility as users of
the library? What is our responsibility to apply
information honestly and ethically?
International- MindednessVariety of resources purchased for the
curriculum – check book lists Listserves and wikisThrough online environments ie: iNETS,
email pals, blogs, global projects
Japanese – blog, skype
IBO “aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.” George Walker, director general emeritus of the IBO, defines an international education as one that offers students the possibility of “discussing major world issues and knowing they can solve problems through cooperation at the local, national, and international level” (Walker, 2002, p. 20-23).
IBO Mission Statement…to develop IM
Role of the Teacher LibrarianLearners and learningTeachers and teachingResourcing the curriculumFacilitating access to the
informationDeveloping the physical
environment
Learners and LearningCatering for a variety of learning styles and
capabilitiesPathfinders, MOODLE pages,Thinking strategies – Bloom’s , De Bono, Thinkers Keys….
Support in the forms of specific focused teaching – search strategies, key words…
Small groups, whole class instruction
Teachers and Teaching
Collaborative Planning sessionsAdditional planning sessions – for
Specialist StaffIn-services (ie Info Lit, Assessment, ICT and IL, Inquiry…)
Incidental collaboration Students – whole class, small group
and directed instruction
Facilitating Access to the CurriculumOnline databases – Gold Coast City
Council Libraries, State LibraryMOODLE (Learning Management System) and Intranet
Oliver - web based LMSLibrary Webpage, blog, delicious siteLibrary opening hours, bulk loans …
Resourcing the CurriculumCurriculum mapping Range of sources – experts, artifacts, online databases, Clickview, Scootle…Use of library management system – Oliver -Reading Lists – UOI, UOI and literacy Additional Languagesand International
literature collection … Brochures – novels and picture books for UOI
and LP and Attitudes
LiteratureFeature booksUOI novels and picture books Recent acquisitionsStudent recommendationsBook displaysFocus displays – on a LP or Attitude or
UOI
Developing the Physical Environment Engaging for
all forms of learners
Bright, welcoming, self directed and caters for different learning needs (small group, individual spaces…)
PYP and the library PYP profiles & attitudes, UOIs - displays
Library policies that reflect IB’s mission – ie Collection Management Policy
Programme of Inquiry (whole school document)
Information Literacy and ICTs – Scope and Sequence documents
Library Essential Agreements
Day planner and term program
Incorporating profiles into library language
Display of PYP library and class units of work in the library.
Planning and assessment tasks
ICT TOOLS and TLs Web 2.0 tools
Wordle http://www.wordle.net/create
Storymapping tool http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/
Bubblus http://www.bubbl.us/
Glogster http://www.glogster.com/edu/
Voicethread http://voicethread.com/login/
Delicious – social book marking http://delicious.com/
and SALC site http://delicious.com/JS_SALC
Examples Voicethread http://voicethread.com/share/515424/
Mindomoto http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=ee92fade88c640edb26c08cc068dcbcc
Animoto http://animoto.com/play/2llMF0PTR4xnoZ1PsKRhFA
Photopeach http://salcjs.edublogs.org/year-4/
Xtranormal http://salcjs.edublogs.org/year-6-2/year-6-term-3/
Resources