Assignment 2: Collaborate with a Teacher and Evolve Their Practice
Introduction Teacher Librarians play a critical role in the school environment by helping students to achieve information literacy skills. While direct contact with students is beneficial, the most efficient ways for Teacher Librarians to have their unique skills reach as many students as possible is through collaboration with classroom teachers and through the professional development of teachers. CASL explains that “as members of the school instructional team, teacher-librarians provide a leadership role in information literacy and work collaboratively with classroom teachers to ensure that literacy skills are integrated effectively into the instructional program” (p. 7). In order to be information literate, students must have the opportunity to gather information from digital references resources. Students and teachers cannot simply be prompted to use digital reference resources without any support, as explained by British Columbia Minist...