Re: [LM_NET] Teacher Librarian

[diane hayashi <daichan@SHAW.CA>]

Teacher-librarian in Canada is pretty similar to Australia.  To be a  
teacher-librarian you must first have a Bachelor's degree of some  
sort, PDP (professional development program) or teacher training, and  
either a 15 unit diploma in teacher-librarianship or an M.Ed. in  
teacher-librarianship or an MLIS.  Now, that is not to say every  
school has a fully qualified teacher-librarian.  Elementary schools  
particularly suffer from having libraries under or unstaffed.

Diane Gallagher-Hayashi
Teacher-Librarian
Stelly's School
SD63 (Saanich)
Saanichton, BC, Canada

daichan@shaw.ca
Diane_Hayashi@sd63.bc.ca

On 3-Mar-09, at 12:10 AM, Barbara Braxton wrote:

> Dear Meg
> In Australia the term used is 'teacher librarian' because to work in  
> school libraries we must have,
> first and foremost, a full 4-year teaching degree.  Although we are  
> trying to have everyone also
> have a specialist educational librarian qualification ( usually post- 
> grad), this is not always the
> case.  Part of the reason for this is that there is neither  
> requirement nor reward for Australian
> teachers to have post-grad qualifications.  There is also a supposed  
> shortage of teacher librarians
> so principals think that anyone can do the job and put a teacher  
> (or, at worst, a clerical
> assistant) in the position.
>
> In those primary (elementary) schools where there are teacher  
> librarians, the role is very much a
> teaching role, most often in a role that gives classroom-based  
> teachers preparation time. All those
> things that Barbara Combe identified are a vital part of our role  
> but are often not
> recognised/understood./valued by our peers.  They see us as the ones  
> taking the kids when they have
> prep time, although I know of one school where the teacher librarian  
> was not replaced when she left
> and the teaching staff have finally discovered all those added  
> extras that were done to support
> their teaching.
>
> The high school situation here is different and I can't comment on  
> that, but, in my opinion, teacher
> librarian expresses perfectly the hats we wear.
> Barbara
>
>
> Barbara Braxton
> Teacher Librarian
> COOMA NSW 2630
> AUSTRALIA
>
> E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
> Together we learn from each other
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