Re: Collaboration with teachers

[Barbara Braxton <barbara@DYNAMITE.COM.AU>]

Hi everyone'
There have been some really interesting ideas posted on this topic, but no one 
seems to have
mentioned the most obvious (well, to me, anyway).

Why don't you be pro-active and ask teachers directly? Ask them what they are 
studying and how can
you help them? Put together a pathfinder or a list of resources that you hold and 
give them to them.
Highlight what is new. (I am doing this with our Olympics theme, right now.)  
Create a hotlist of
appropriate sites, put it in on your school website (so the kids can have 
out-of-hours access) and
tell the staff it is there.

Have a brunch and browse session where they can come and look at the collection 
during a planning
day.  Offer to run sessions on Information Literacy, using the OPAC or whatever 
else is needed that
you can do. Pass on relevant emails from this list (or others) to individual 
teachers who will be
interested.

Be upfront and visible.  So often teachers do not understand our specialist role 
and this is an
excellent way of promoting it.

Cheers
Barbara



Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

T. 02 6205 6162
F. 02 6205 7242
E. barbara@dynamite.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
"Together, we learn from each other."

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