Dissertations / Theses: 'Teacher librarian'

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Giorgis, Cynthia Ann. "Librarian as teacher: Exploring elementary teachers' perceptions of the role of the school librarian and the implementation of flexible scheduling and collaborative planning." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186740.

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This qualitative case study explored elementary teachers' perceptions of the role of the school librarian and the implementation of flexible scheduling and collaborative planning. Data collected consisted of field notes, audiotaping of formal interviews and planning sessions, weekly plan books, monthly calendars, questionnaires and the collection of student work. During formal data analysis, new questions began to emerge. These three questions then guided the process of data analysis. These questions were: (1) What are teachers' perceptions of the role of the school librarian as indicated through responses and actions? (2) What changes occurred in teachers' perceptions during the school year? and (3) What are teachers' issues and concerns about the implementation of flexible scheduling and collaborative planning? Four roles of the school librarian emerged from data analysis. These were: the resource role of the school librarian; the cooperative role of the school librarian; the transition from a cooperative to a collaborative role; and the collaborative role of the school librarian. In addition, seven categories were developed through the analysis of interviews and questionnaires. One category developed as several teachers expressed their concern in not having a regularly scheduled library time for students to check-out books. A few teachers also indicated the need for students to learn library skills. Within each of the seven categories, several issues also emerged. The findings of the study indicate there were numerous changes during the school year in teachers' perceptions related to the role of the school librarian. There were also ten implications which resulted from the study. One of these implications focused on professional development within schools and school districts. Professional development assists in the role of ownership and as Fullan (1991) states, ownership of something new is tantamount to real change. Through professional development, teachers and librarians can learn about the process of cooperative and collaborative planning together.

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Leung, Yuet Ha. "Information literacy skills : Hong Kong primary teachers' perceptions of the role of the teacher librarian." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51333/.

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The thesis reviewed the changes to the role of teacher librarians and the implications of this for primary teachers. The study sought to explore the teachers’ views about information literacy skills, who should teach them and the role of the teacher librarian. This study took a mix-methods approach, i.e. quantitative and qualitative research, in which self-report data were collected through a questionnaire to classroom teachers followed by individual face to face interview with six questionnaire respondents. The findings of the study were that teachers associate information literacy skills with information technology skills. Though they said they understand information literacy skills, their understanding of information literacy skills was discrete and not systematic compared with the definition of information literacy skills in the literature. They agreed that information literacy skills were important and they have the responsibility to teach student such skills. They agreed that they have further professional development needs in terms of information literacy skills. Teachers who started teaching before 1998 reported some changes in teaching and learning made by the presence of the teacher librarian. They agreed with the provision of the teacher librarian post though they were not aware of the legislated role of the teacher librarian. They thought that awareness of the role of the teacher librarian and information literacy skills and the ability to develop students’ information literacy skills would help them utilize the skills of the teacher librarian. The findings have highlighted the implications for teacher education to train teacher information literacy skills, raise teachers’ awareness of the role of the teacher librarian especially in Cooperative Planning and Teaching with teachers to equip student information literacy skills. For serving teachers, piloting the role of the teacher librarian, Cooperative Planning and Teaching and flexible library timetable are necessary to facilitate implementation of the legislated role of the teacher librarian.

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Dowell, Barbara Florence. "Classroom Teacher and Adminstrators Perception of the Teacher Librarians' Contribution to Student Academic Achievement." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6992.

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Library research studies have provided evidence that teacher-librarians (TLs) impact student academic success; nevertheless, TLs statewide and internationally are at a critical juncture due to stakeholder groups' ambiguous perceptions regarding their influence on student achievement. The problem in this study involves a local independent school district's lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate TLs' contribution to student achievement on standardized testing. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of TLs, classroom teachers (CTs), and administrative staff (AS) concerning student achievement as instructed by local TLs. Using Piaget's cognitive theory and Mezirow's transformative learning theory, this qualitative case study explored the perceptions of 15 participants and acquired clarification regarding the TLs' instructional practice. The interview questions focused on perceptions of 5 CTs, 5 AS, and 5 TLs regarding the instructional role of TLs on students' academic success as well as the evidence provided by these stakeholders regarding the value of school libraries. Data collection with semi-structured interviews followed by an open coding thematic analysis revealed 7 themes: (1) involvement in curriculum, (2) flexibility of schedule, (3) preconceived misconceptions, (4) using an evidence-based practice approach, (5) collaboration, (6) access to materials, and (7) a conducive learning environment. The resulting project consisted of a policy recommendation created for augmenting stakeholder perceptions. The project contributes to social change by fostering an informed societal positive perception of the TLs' instructional influence on student academic achievement and by offering a measurable interpretation of the TLs' educational value to the learning community that may transform stakeholder perception locally and worldwide.

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Sandford, Deborah W. "Construction of Professional Identity in Novice Library Media Specialists." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/109.

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The roles of the person who works in a school library, as well as their title - librarian, teacher-librarian, library teacher, library media specialist, school librarian, library media teacher - have undergone countless revisions since the first official school libraries opened their doors in the early 1900s. Although school library media specialists (LMSs) have struggled to negotiate their identities in public K12 education for decades, this "identity crisis" seems to have reached a critical point due to changes in U.S. learning environments brought about by federal legislation, the implementation of standards-based teaching, the emphasis on standardized criterion referenced testing, and the proliferation and ubiquitous use of computers and the Internet as information sources. Although teacher identity has been thoroughly studied, the ways in which LMSs describe themselves in their professional role and how their identities change from pre-service to in-service are rarely investigated. Using Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain’s (1998) theory of identity and their concept of figured worlds as a framework, this study explores how four novice LMSs negotiated the identities made available to them in the figured worlds of their public K12 school environments. The following questions guided the study: 1. How do novice library media specialists describe their professional identities? a. How does personal history inform the construction of professional identity of novice library media specialists? b. How do novice library media specialists negotiate identity within the figured worlds of public K12 schools? The four participants were first year LMSs recruited from a large urban school district in the southeastern United States. Data collection took place over the course of the 2011-2012 school year and included in-depth interviews, document analysis, journal responses, and observations. Findings indicate that the figured worlds in which novice library media practitioners begin their careers are often shaped by the experiences that faculty, administrators, and students have had with previous LMSs and bear significant influence on the identities afforded new LMSs as well as their own experiences with LMSs prior to their preparation programs.

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Thomas, Rebecca Lynne. "The influence of a poetry-enriched environment on the poetry preferences and responses of sixth-grade children : a librarian-teacher collaboration /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265555438211.

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Starkey, Alysia. "Kansas academic librarian perceptions of information literacy professional development needs." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3856.

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Mikalishen, Wendy Eleanor. "The role of the teacher-librarian in the teaching of information literacy in the intermediate grades." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59460.pdf.

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Dillon, Kenneth Walter. "A study of the role of an online community in the community in the professional learning of teacher librarians." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001422/.

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The thesis has its origins in a concern that teacher librarians in schools throughout Australia were disadvantaged in the development of their professional learning due to their professional and often geographical isolation in schools. A listserv (online discussion network) called OZTL_NET was developed to facilitate the enhancement of teacher professional learning for this group of teachers. OZTL_NET has been available to teacher librarians and others interested in teacher librarianship for over nine years. The study sought to determine whether usage of OZTL_NET was associated with the enhancement of teacher librarians’ professional learning. The study also explored the characteristics of teacher professional learning from the literature and sought to determine which characteristics of online communities may contribute to teacher professional learning. A case study design for the research was adopted using a mixed methods approach. The methods of data collection were a web survey and semi-structured interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analysed and a detailed description of the object of study, OZTL_NET, was provided. A major finding of this study was that usage of OZTL_NET was significantly related to the enhancement of teacher professional learning. It was concluded that online learning communities may provide appropriate contexts for teacher professional learning and that, in relation to the case of OZTL_NET, various aspects of the concept of online learning communities and, to a lesser extent, communities of practice, are portrayed in the listserv. The findings supported the assertion that online learning communities have the potential to enhance the professional learning of teachers and provide opportunities for teachers to learn online. The study also revealed that community building online is a complex and demanding activity. Usability and sociability factors must be carefully considered and developed over the lifetime of the community. This process should include input from the community, the leadership of which should be broad-based and inclusive. Two broad principles emerged from the research that provide guidance for the management of listservs for teacher professional learning online. First, the study revealed that involvement and collaboration were critical ingredients in teacher professional learning online. Involvement was portrayed not only in the learning that ensued from the interactivity that necessarily underpins the sharing of tacit knowledge through information exchange and professional discussion between and among subscribers online but also by individuals through less obvious means such as lurking, archive searches and off-list communications. In terms of collaboration, this study found that in addition to high levels of trust, subscribers experienced a strong sense of collegiality and support as members of OZTL_NET. Second, the major finding above confirms that involvement and collaboration are strongly related to individual and collective orientations of teacher professional learning. The broad concept of individual or collective orientation recognises that teacher professional learning occurs in both orientations online as it does offline. Teachers have long recognised their colleagues as their major source of professional information. The difficulty in the past has been in the identification of a means by which teachers can readily access a wider pool of colleagues with whom they can discuss important issues, seek advice and so on. This is particularly important for teachers who are professionally isolated as a consequence of their teaching speciality (such as teacher librarians) and those who are geographically isolated making real time meetings with colleagues expensive and/or impracticable. In this context listservs such as OZTL_NET can play a critical role in providing the infrastructure to support distributed models of teacher professional learning online.

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Bell, Michael David 1943. "Elementary School Climate Factors and Personality and Status Variables Associated with School Library Media Specialists Chosen by Classroom Teachers for Cooperation on Instructional Problems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332312/.

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This study investigated relationships between the extent to which elementary classroom teachers tend to choose school library media specialists for cooperation on instructional problems and several school climate and faculty related characteristics including the general academic effectiveness of the school, the overall cohesion and cooperativeness of the teaching faculty on instructional matters, and the propensity of the group and individual faculty to seek cooperation to solve instructional problems. The instructional choice status of the school library media specialist was also studied in relation to various individual personality factors, as measured by Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire, as well as school media specialist status variables including degreed or non-degreed status, total years of experience as a school library media specialist, years of experience on campus as a school library media specialist, and total number of years of experience in the field of education. The instructional status of the school library media specialist was also examined in relationship to the size of the school served. The study included 1,079 elementary classroom teachers and thirty-nine school library media specialists from thirty-nine Texas elementary schools similar in important wealth, size, and student demographic characteristics. Twenty of the schools ranked in the bottom 25% of all schools in the state as to how well their students performed on the 1988 Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) test. Nineteen schools ranked among the top 25%of all schools in the state in academic effectiveness. As compared to the low academic schools, the high academic schools were found to be significantly more instructionally cohesive, and classroom teachers in those schools were significantly more disposed to choose the school library media specialist to cooperate with them on instructional problems. No significant relationships were discovered between the instructional choice status of the school media specialist and his or her measured personality characteristics.

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McFadden, Kevin M. "Overdue, an investigation and exploration of grade 10 students' perceptions of a teacher-librarian and a school media centre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq52927.pdf.

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Djurström, Linda. "Lärare och skolbibliotekariers samarbete : Utifrån TLC-modellerna." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254325.

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This two year masters thesis is written in the scientific field of library- and information science. The purpose of the study is to investigate the collaboration between teachers and librarians in different types of school library organisations. Two school libraries with only the school as a target group, two integrated public- and school libraries, one school library division and one public library that provides the school with school library services has been studied. The study takes place in Uppland. The theoretical framework used is based on Montiel-Overall and her four models of collaboration: coordina-tion, cooperation, integrated instruction and integrated curriculum. The first research question focuses on the col-laboration between teachers and librarians based on each of the TLC-models. The second research question goes into factors that limit collaboration between librarians and teachers. The methods used are qualitative text analysis and qualitative interviews. The main focus is on the interviews. The study is based on the librarians point of view. The interviews and the text analysis are analysed together under six different subject fields based on the research questions. Collaboration takes place largely within the models A (coordination) and B (cooperation). Some collabora-tions conducted in the school library organisations has however components from model C (integrated instruc-tion). It is less common with deeper forms of collaborations in the result of this study. A lack of resources like time has been observed that limits the collaboration between teachers and librarians. The collaboration between teachers and librarians need to be emphasized and prioritized.

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Lind, Emma. "Den stereotypa skolbibliotekarien? : En studie om icke yrkesverksamma lärare och lärarassistenters syn på skolbibliotekarien." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-47043.

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The aim of this bachelor thesis has been to explore how teachers with long experience in the profession look upon the school librarian, if they see and are affected by any stereotypes. As my method I have interviewed five teachers and asked them a series of questions about how they have worked with the school librarians during the years and what they have thought about when they would hear the word librarian. I have used three major research questions: Since teachers visit the school library quite often in their occupation, how do they perceive the school librarian? How are teachers affected by the stereotypical image of the librarian? According to the teacher, has the librarian changed during the last 40 years? I have tried to distinguish if the teachers I interviewed talked about any stereotypical attributes, based on which I conducted an analysis about my findings. I was surprised to find that the teachers do not seem to have a stereotypical image of the school librarian, rather that they know that stereotypes exist but that they have realized that the librarians they met in their profession do not fit in any of the stereotypes. Still when they did talk about the stereotypical librarian they immediately thought of the old grumpy lady with her hair in a bun and glasses, who is very strict and boring. This study is rather limited by its size, which is why my findings only reflect a part of what teachers might think and not necessarily what everyone thinks.

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Olsson, Therese. "Informationskompetens : En fenomenografisk undersökning av skolledares uppfattningar om informationskompetens." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-183594.

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The aim of my “two years master thesis” was to examine school administrators perceptions about important information literacy skills that the students should be able to control, perceptions about what role the teachers and the librarians have in teaching students information literacy and perceptions about the collaboration between these groups. My questions have been: Have the school administrators reflected upon the conception of information literacy? What conceptions do school administrators have about important information literacy skills that the students should be able to control? What role do they consider the teachers and the librarians to have in making all students information literate? How do they consider the collaboration between the teachers and the librarians work? What role do they consider themselves to have on a management level to make all students’ information literate? I used a phenomenographical method and carried out six qualitative interviews with school administrators from five senior high schools in the municipality of Gävle. Both public schools and independent schools were included in the study. Most of the school administrators considered information literacy to be the same as criticism of sources, which they also considered as one of the most important information literacy skills. Only one of the school administrators thought that information literacy is about arranging the information. All of the school administrators thought that the teachers have the main responsibility for the education in information literacy. The librarians were by the school administrators considered not to be used at their full potential and the perceptions about the librarians tasks was that they were to be a guidance in databases, tempt students in to reading by talking about books and ask students critical questions through the information literacy process. The school administrators thought that the collaboration between the teachers and the librarians was satisfying. All of the school administrators thought that they should provide the right conditions for collaboration between the groups, but that the school administrators should not run the project. One of the reasons why the school administrators in my essay focused on criticism of the sources and not on the arranging of information can be due to that information literacy is vaguely described in the school curriculum. A conclusion in the study is that the school administrators have insufficient knowledge and insight in how the collaboration between the teachers and the librarians work and that the school administrators do not allocate enough time for the teachers and librarians to collaborate.

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Palmer, Gillian. "Recreational reading : a case study of recreational reading habits of some primary school pupils and the role of the teacher-librarian in intervention strategies." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13398.

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Bibliography: leaves 101-107.
An interest in the topic of recreational reading was prompted by the observations and experience of the researcher. The study that followed was intended to confirm or refute the theory of the decline of reading. A perceived decline in reading has concerned teachers and librarians and strategies have been devised to reverse this trend. The strategies used by the researcher were adopted and adapted to meet the pupils' recreational reading needs. Methods that were likely to reverse the trend in the decline of reading were used with the expectation that the reading programme would affect reading behaviour and that pupils would be encouraged to read for pleasure. The case study method which included both a questionnaire and discussion with the pupils was used. Studies of this kind are scarce and out-dated, but this investigation has been of value to the pupils, teachers and the researcher as teacher-librarian, for all have benefitted from the stimulating and interesting input from the interventive strategies. A number of the results proved to be unforeseen, such as a decline in recreational reading generally throughout the group, and also the children's perception of the short amount of time they spend viewing television. These were contrary to the findings of all previous studies and should be treated with circumspection. The role of the school library and the teacher-librarian are essential in schools today as they are of great benefit to the whole school community. The study has proved without a doubt that availability of reading resources and guidance to the pupils in making stimulating and interesting choices should be the aim of all concerned with children's reading so that their needs can be met and the reading habit fostered.

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Lordh, Anneli. "Gymnasieelevers informationskompetens : En studie i sju klasser i gymnasiets år 3." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-105793.

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This master's thesis examines information literacy and students in secondary education. The study is framed within a sociocultural perspective of learning and the method used is questionnaires. The major question posed is how and where students seek information. Other questions are if the students critically evaluate and analyse information sources and if teachers and school librarians cooperate with each other in order to help the students with their assignments.

The findings indicate that most students regard information seeking as fact-finding or finding the right answers to the question. Only one third of students experienced information seeking as seeking and using information for understanding a topic. The first place the students look for information is the Internet. Half of the students think they have been trained in information seeking. More boys than girls believe they have been trained. Three quarters of the students do not think they need more training in information seeking. Two thirds of the students think they have been sufficiently trained in source evaluation and more boys than girls believe they have been sufficiently trained. Just over half of the students do not think they need more training in source evaluation.

A good half of the students think the school library is quite important and almost half of the girls and one third of the boys visit the library once or twice per month. The cooperation between the teachers and the librarians does not work as well in the schools as the teachers and librarians wish but is improving. The majority of the teachers and librarians think their cooperation needs to be improved. The majority of the teachers think there is a correlation between information seeking and learning outcomes. All the librarians think the library is a resource that ought to be integrated in the students' education.

My conclusion is that the majority of the students are not information literate. To be information literate, the students need to have the ability to locate and evaluate the required information. Information seeking as scrutinizing and analysing is a pre-requisite for lifelong learning.

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Garry, Candi Pierce. "Selection or Censorship? School Librarians and LGBTQ Resources." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406589992.

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Desvages, Vanessa. "Des professionnalités à l'épreuve de la réforme des rythmes scolaires : quand le jeu questionne les pratiques des enseignants et des animateurs." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC004/document.

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Cette recherche interroge la professionnalité des enseignants et des animateurs amenés à partager un même terrain suite à la réforme des rythmes scolaires à travers leurs pratiques singulières du jeu. C’est au filtre de la didactique clinique qu’on analyse cette professionnalité considérant que l’analyse de la pratique didactique ludique ne peut se faire d’une manière désincarnée, excluant le sujet.Notre objectif est d’identifier quelles sont les pratiques ludiques et comment ces pratiques ludiques sont liées au rapport au jeu de l’enseignant et de l’animateur. Nous émettons l’hypothèse que la pratique personnelle ludique et la rencontre avec l’Autre impactent les pratiques ludiques professionnelles.Les quatre études de cas présentées ici et leur comparaison permettent d’identifier les tensions dans les pratiques ludiques de chacun mais aussi dans la construction de son identité professionnelle. La comparaison des cas avec des entretiens de groupes professionnels d’animateurs et d’enseignants permet d’observer comment le sujet s’approprie l’histoire de son groupe et quel rapport il construit avec l’Autre.Cette recherche interroge au-delà de la construction professionnelle des uns et des autres, la spécificité de la pratique ludique à l’école et autour de l’école, les résultats suggérant qu’il n’est pas toujours simple, quel que soit le professionnel, de se détacher de la forme scolaire. Enseignants ou animateurs, chaque sujet s’avère être lieu de tensions internes difficiles à gérer. Cette étude tente de montrer dans quelles mesures les pratiques ludiques de chacun sont impactées par ces jeux de tensions
This research questions teachers’ professionality and activity coordinators’ professionality who must share education field since reform of rhythm of schooling in 2013. We examine their personal practices of gaming with clinical didactic because analysis can’t forget the subject. We want to see the different ways of playing wondering about the subject’s relationship to the game and about its effect on playing games. Our hypotheses are those personal experiences and the other one influence professional practices of play. We are introducing here four case studies; comparisons are made between themselves to identify tensions in practices of play and in their professional identity construction. We compare these case studies to community discussions: a discussion with a group of activity coordinators and with a group of teachers. These comparisons show how the subject appropriates his group’s history and how he builds relationship to the other one

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Tallroth, Johanna, and Martina Andersson. "Skolbibliotekarier i samverkan : Samarbete mellan skolbibliotekarier och lärare i Dalarna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70647.

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Title: School librarians in collaboration The focus of this text is to examine the collaboration between librarians and teachers and how this collaboration can help students achieve better results in school. The school library is often bypassed by teachers. In this lack of involvement and support lies a risk that the gain for students is less than it should be. The purpose of this study aims to investigate if there is any collaboration between the school librarians and the teachers and to what level. The theory used is Patricia Montiel-Overall´s Teacher and Librarian Collaboration (TLC). Seven interviews with school librarians was conducted. Due to being a small study, the material was transcribed into text and read through the perspective of the school librarians only. The findings show collaboration between teachers and librarians is present but to a low level and that administrators do not take such an active part in supporting the librarians. The study provides a glimpse into this field of research on collaboration between teachers and librarians.

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Paulo, Rodrigo Barbosa de [UNESP]. "Atuação do bibliotecário na formação de professores do ensino fundamental para o desenvolvimento da competência informacional: uma experiência na rede da educação municipal de Marília-SP." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140139.

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O desenvolvimento da competência informacional se faz necessário desde os primeiros anos escolares, já que aprimora a capacidade de as pessoas usufruírem de um dos seus direitos humanos fundamentais, o acesso à informação. Delineando-se por estas perspectivas, este estudo tem como objetivo oferecer um panorama a respeito da inter-relação entre a Competência Informacional e o ensino fundamental e contribuir com referenciais norteadores que possam facilitar a adoção de postura reflexiva, crítica e inovadora em relação aos conteúdos decorrentes do acesso e uso da informação para a construção de conhecimento. A abordagem utilizada foi a pesquisa-ação, incluindo atividades de formação dos professores de duas escolas municipais da cidade de Marília ao longo de dezoito meses e tendo como técnicas de coleta de dados: entrevistas com os professores, a aplicação de questionários e análise de relatórios semanais dos professores a respeito das atividades realizadas em sala de aula. Os resultados demonstram que se tem muito a fazer, porém, pode-se perceber mudanças significativas no modo como os professores planejam, utilizam fontes de informação, desenvolvem pesquisa escolar com seus alunos e aplicam noções de normalização dos trabalhos.
The development of information literacy is needed from the earliest school years, as it enhances the ability of people take advantage of one of their fundamental human rights, access the information. outlining by these perspectives, this study aims to provide an overview about the inter-relationship between information literacy and primary education and contribute to guiding frameworks that would facilitate the adoption of reflexive posture, critical and innovative in relation to content resulting from access and use of information for the construction of knowledge. The approach used was action research, including training activities of two public school teachers in the city of Marilia over eighteen months and with the data collection techniques: interviews with teachers, questionnaires and reports analysis weekly teacher about the activities in the classroom. The results show that it has a lot to do, however, can be seen significant changes in the way teachers plan, using information sources, develop school research with their students and apply standards.

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Duarte, Hermine Colette Bach. "A Biblioteca Escolar como complemento ao ensino do Inglês no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico em um centro escolar do município de Seia." Master's thesis, Universidade Portucalense, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1282.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Educação e Bibliotecas.
Com este projeto pretendemos demonstrar a importância da biblioteca escolar na aprendizagem de uma nova língua estrangeira, nomeadamente o inglês. O trabalho foi dividido em duas grandes partes em que a pesquisa bibliográfica nos permitiu desenvolver os conteúdos fundamentais para a nossa temática, nomeadamente relacionado com a biblioteca escolar, as atividades lúdico- pedagógicas e o ensino do inglês no 1º CEB. Numa parte mais prática, valendo-nos da metodologia de investigação-ação, elaboramos um conjunto de atividades lúdico-pedagógicas realizadas em contexto de sala de aula e na biblioteca com alunos do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, no Centro Escolar de Seia. Para além das atividades analisámos a influência do papel do professor- bibliotecário e professor de inglês para implementação desse género de atividades. Também foi solicitado a opinião de vários intervenientes que foram importantes para o estudo. Com o projeto conseguimos verificar a importância da biblioteca na aprendizagem de uma língua estrangeira no 1º ciclo do ensino básico.
With this project we intend to demonstrate the importance of the school library in learning a new foreign language as English. This project was mostly divided into two major parts: the literature allowed us to develop the fundamental contents of our theme, in particular related to the school library, the playful activities and teaching English in the primary school. In a more practical part drawing upon the action research methodology, we developed a set of playful activities performed in the classroom context and in the library with primary school students in the primary school of Seia. In addition to the activities we examined the influence of the teacher-librarian's role and English teacher’s role for implementation about this kind of activities. It was also requested the opinion of several participants that were important to this study. With the project we can verify the importance of the library in learning a foreign language in the primary school.
Orientação: Prof. Doutora Maria Cristina Vieira de Freitas.

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Monteiro, Gisele Camargo. "A biblioteca escolar na formação de competências em informação: contribuições e perspectivas em bibliotecas do Colégio Pedro II." Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2016. http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/881.

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Esta pesquisa de caráter qualitativo discute o papel da Biblioteca Escolar no desenvolvimento de Competências em Informação em alunos do Ensino Fundamental. Parte da análise do papel de educador e mediador do bibliotecário escolar nas atividades de pesquisa escolar. Tem por objetivo identificar a existência de programas e/ou atividades desenvolvidas em Bibliotecas Escolares que apoiem o desenvolvimento de Competências em Informação através do auxílio às atividades de pesquisa escolar. Para cumprir esse propósito, foram selecionadas duas bibliotecas de unidades escolares do Colégio Pedro II, nos campi Centro e São Cristóvão. A coleta de dados se deu através de observação das bibliotecas selecionadas e entrevista com os bibliotecários das unidades. Para desenvolver esta pesquisa, utiliza-se também, como subsídio teórico o conceito de Competência em Informação e de aprender a aprender – aprendizagem por questionamento. Apresenta um histórico da Biblioteca Escolar no Brasil, seu conceito, função, missão e os programas e legislações nacionais de incentivo e implantação do espaço nas unidades educacionais. O estudo mostrou que a Biblioteca Escolar ainda não está totalmente incluída no projeto pedagógico escolar, o que prejudica o pleno aproveitamento do espaço, dos recursos e das atividades e programas, principalmente, direcionados ao desenvolvimento e consolidação da Competência em Informação. E também que, apesar dos esforços dos bibliotecários, o lugar da biblioteca na escola ainda é pouco conhecido pelo corpo escolar e, talvez, até pelos seus profissionais.
This research has a qualitative aspect and discusses the role of schools libraries on the development of Information Literacy among primary school students. It´s based on the evaluation of the part played by the librarians as mediators and educators on the schools researches activates. The purpose is to identify the existence of programs and activates performed on schools libraries that support the development of Information Literacy with the assistance of the schools researches activities. To accomplish this goal, two libraries unities from the Pedro II Scholl (Downtown and São Cristovão) were selected for this research process. The data was collected by observing the selected unites and interviewing their librarians. The development of this research was also based on the theoretical concepts of Information Literacy and the learning thought questioning. It also introduces the concept of schools libraries; an historical background of the institution on Brazil and the programs and national legislations that encourage the implementation of this space on the educational unites. This research has shown that the libraries still haven´t been completely inserted on the educational projects of the schools, witch impacts on the achievement of full use of the space, the resources and the program activities, especially the ones directed to the development and consolidation of the Information Literacy. Even despites all the librarian efforts, the library place on the school system still not very well known by the school staff and even by its own professionals.

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Mnkeni, Nampombe Pearson. "The effectiveness of teacher librarians in primary schools : the experience of the Melani school libraries in the Eastern Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11065.

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In 2002, a pilot project established school libraries in eleven primary schools in Melani, Fort Beaufort District. The role players in this initiative were South African Partners (an American Non Governmental Organization), the Eastern Cape Department of Education, the University of Fort Hare and the Library and Information Science Association of South Africa (LlASA). Each school nominated one teacher to receive teacher librarianship training to manage and sustain the school libraries. The aim of the project was to develop a model that would lead to the establishment and development of school libraries in other areas of the Eastern Cape. This research project sought to investigate the effectiveness of teacher librarians in primary schools reflecting on the experience of the Melani cluster of schools. The aim was to assess the effects the school libraries have had on teaching and learning. The qualitative and quantitative study involved 110 primary learners, 39 educators, 11 teacher librarians, and an official from the Provincial Department of Education.

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Kaplan, Allison G. "Benign neglect principals' knowledge of and attitudes towards school library media specialists /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.52 Mb., 126 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220729.

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Clark, Hazel Grace. "Teacher librarians, technology, and collaborative connections: a case study of teacher librarians from a communities of practice perspective /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2636.

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Krslak, Elvir. "Läsförståelse: ett kollegialt samarbetsuppdrag? : En kvalitativ intervjustudie med lärare i årskurs tre med fokus på samarbete med bibliotekarier kring läsförståelse." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82639.

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In this study, a total of five teachers were interviewed in grade three from four different schools in Stockholm. Three of these schools are located in different suburbs and one school is located in the central part of Stockholm. The starting point of the study is statistics that show a negative development with, in particular, the students who have Swedish as a second language. This study provides an insight into how teachers in grade three of elementary school in Stockholm work with their students to develop reading comprehension. In the study of reading comprehension, this study focuses on the Reciprocal Teaching (RT) method. RT is a well-established reading comprehension strategy designed to bridge the difference between poor readers and good readers. The study shows that not all teachers are familiar with the RT method and also that teachers do not work consistently with all parts of this method. Furthermore, the study also gives an insight into the question of whether the teachers see the librarian as a possible partner in the process. To measure the level at which the teachers collaborate with school librarians, Montiel-Overall's (2005) Teacher Librarian Collaboration (TLC) theory was chosen. TLC theory is an attempt to make practical use of Loertscher’s taxonomy by grouping the low, medium and high levels of collaboration into four models (Model A: coordination, Model B: cooperation, Model C: integrated instruction and Model D: integrated curriculum.) that help define and measure the effect of each model on students’ achievements. This study concludes that the teachers so far haven’t thought about their school librarian as a potential partner with the stated purpose of increasing the students' reading comprehension. The levels of collaboration are predominantly on the low end of the TLC models (Model A: coordination, Model B: cooperation), meaning that teachers and librarians help each other for mutual benefit but no conscious effort is made to plan, teach and evaluate together.

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Mertes, Nathalie. "Teachers' conceptions of student information literacy learning and teachers' practices of information literacy teaching and collaboration with the school library." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16921.

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Schulbibliothekare sollen mit Lehrern zusammenarbeiten, um die Informationskompetenz (IK) der Schüler zu fördern, aber Informationswissenschaftler berichten international über mangelnde und oberflächliche Zusammenarbeit. Die Sicht der Lehrer auf die Förderung von IK und die Zusammenarbeit mit der Schulbibliothek wurde in der Forschung bisher kaum berücksichtigt. Basierend auf einem qualitativen Design beschreibt diese Studie den Prozess der Förderung von IK in einem ganzen Lehrerkollegium in einer US-amerikanischen Privatschule in einer detaillierten Theorie. Daten über Lehrer wurden in teilstrukturierten Interviews mit der Schulleitung und Schülern erhoben, Daten von Lehrern in einem Fragebogen und teilstrukturierten Interviews. Die Lehrer identifizierten sieben Bereiche von IK. Die Ergebnisse zeigten zudem, dass die Mehrzahl der Lehrer IK unterrichtete, vor allem mit Hilfe von Rechercheaufgaben, und dabei mit der Schulbibliothek zusammenarbeitete, und dass sowohl Schulbibliothekare als auch Lehrer didaktische Maßnahmen ergriffen. Der Prozess der IK-Förderung wurde beeinflusst durch die Fachgebiete und den Umfang der Rechercheaufgaben. Beispielsweise wurden in kleineren Projekten in erster Linie Quellen aus dem Internet genutzt, in größeren hingegen Quellen aus der Schulbibliothek; auch unterrichteten die Schulbibliothekare im Rahmen von kleineren Rechercheaufgaben vorrangig Aspekte zum Auffinden von Informationen, in größeren Arbeiten hingegen Aspekte zur Mehrzahl der sieben IK-Bereiche. Die Förderung von IK in der formalen Bildung ist ein komplexes Unterfangen. Schlussfolgerungen für die Praxis sind, dass die Schulbibliothekare dieser Komplexität Rechnung tragen und sich mit den Lehrern über gemeinsame Begriffe von IK sowie Ziele, Gelegenheiten und Verantwortlichkeiten bei der Förderung von IK verständigen sollten. In Schulen ohne Bibliothekare sollten Lehrer besonders gut vorbereitet sein, um die erforderlichen didaktischen Interventionen alleine zu leisten.
School librarians are expected to interact with teachers for enhancing student information literacy (IL); however, information scientists report low numbers and levels of collaboration internationally. The teachers’ perspective on both IL teaching and collaboration with the school library has been neglected in research. Hence, a qualitative case study approach was chosen for gaining an in-depth understanding and developing a theory about the process of IL teaching in an entire faculty in a US independent high school. Data were collected about teachers in interviews with administrators, the head school librarian, and students, and from teachers in a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. IL emerged out of the study in the form of seven concepts with major findings exhibiting that the majority of teachers do teach IL, especially through the assignment of research tasks, and collaborate with the school library, and that school librarians as well as teachers provide pedagogical interventions. IL competencies covered in research tasks, pedagogical interventions, and collaborative interactions were partly shaped by disciplines and the scope of research tasks. For example, web sources were prevalent in small-scale projects and library sources in extended projects; moreover, school librarians provided pedagogical interventions predominantly about information finding when students undertook small-scale research projects and about the majority of IL competencies when students undertook extended projects. IL teaching in formal education is a highly complex endeavor. Implications for practice include that school librarians need to take into account this complexity and agree with teachers on common understandings of IL and negotiate objectives, opportunities, and responsibilities with them for providing pedagogical interventions; where librarians are missing within schools, teachers need to be particularly well prepared for providing these interventions alone.

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Germann, Karl. "Teacher-librarians and technology, an action research study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0017/MQ56666.pdf.

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Wong, Chi-kwan. "Factors affecting the job satisfaction of teacher-librarians in adided secondary schools of Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1390694X.

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Yeung, Po-shan. "Attitudes of teacher-librarians in secondary schools of Hong Kong towards professional development." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20135919.

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Wong, Chi-kwan, and 黃志坤. "Factors affecting the job satisfaction of teacher-librarians in adidedsecondary schools of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195618X.

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Haigh, Colleen, and n/a. "A history of the School Library Association in Canberra and District : the first decade 1971-1981." University of Canberra. Communication, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060714.120926.

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This study traces many of the highlights which occurred during the first decade of the history of the School Library Association in Canberra and District (SLACAD). The roots of this association lie deep in the history of school libraries and teacherlibrarianship in Australia. Many SLACAD members belonged to other state school library associations and to the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) confederation since the establishment of these associations in the 1960's. These teacher-librarians have been dedicated in their attempts to further the cause of school libraries and their teacher-librarianship profession. The decade covered by this study embraces the greatest period of expansion in the development of school libraries seen in Australian history. During this decade the A.C.T. established an independent education system and it took many years for the A.C.T. Schools Authority administration to finalise its organisation. SLACAD members were anxious that school libraries in the A.C.T. should keep pace with school libraries in other Australian states and this study documents the constant efforts of its members to obtain improvements in school librarianship. Teacher-librarians in the A.C.T. have continued to maintain a close liaison with ASLA and many A.C.T. teacher-librarians have held executive office in ASLA. SLACAD has hosted seminars and conferences and this study documents numerous submissions and reports which were a necessary feature of the expanding A.C.T. school library association milieu.

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Frye, Julie Marie. "Occupational vulnerability| A study of novice school librarians." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3631273.

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Using Callahan's (1962) vulnerability thesis as a theoretical framework, this qualitative case studies research examines the occupational socialization of secondary, public school librarians. The study examines three novice librarians' autobiographical narratives and explores how participants perceived the influence of professional, critical events. The study addresses the challenges and successes that novice school librarians encounter or bring about during their early years in the profession. The study also examines how critical events create professional identities of school librarians, and how narratives of vulnerability (re)produce culture myths about teaching and librarianship.

In order to have a better understanding of the occupational socialization of the school librarian participants, I collected data from multiple sources for each of the cases. The procedures included direct observations, interviews, and document analysis. The research began while participants were student teaching, and data was collected until their second year of practice.

The results of the analysis indicate that participants' student teaching placements provided polarized experiences to model their practices after: either unrealistic or unacceptable. All participants express that they were unprepared for their service in public schools, and they were unsupported by their administrators in their first school librarian positions. In addition, they convey great discomfort with the "myths" of their clerical work that their administrators or job titles demanded. The study suggests that in spite of their perceived inadequate socialization, school librarian participants exhibit strength in the midst of great occupational challenges and role uncertainty.

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Kahler, Betty June. "Development and validation of a prototype instrument to be used in the appraisal of school library media specialists." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/24615821.html.

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Parrott, Deborah J., and Karin Keith. "Three Heads Are Better Than One: Librarians, Reading Specialists, and Classroom Teachers in the Learning Commons." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/984.

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Gone are the days when the school librarian was the austere custodian of the books. Twenty-first-century standards progressively call for librarians to step in as instructional leaders, connecting educators and students to materials, methods, and technology across the curriculum. In an age of increased accountability through never-ending standardized testing, as well as the implementation of Common Core standards, classroom teachers need all the support they can get. To add fuel to the fire, numerous states have reduced their budgets, leaving reading specialists and literacy coaches short in terms of time and materials. Students who once received differentiated instruction or reading intervention are overlooked or underserved. Where can teachers and reading specialists receive support to help close the achievement gap? Librarians to the rescue! Currently, school librarians are discovering yet another dynamic leadership and role: coteacher with classroom teachers and reading specialists in the library learning commons. This article explores strategies for librarians to implement differentiated instruction in collaboration with classroom teachers and reading specialists using a coteaching model. Keywords: school librarians, literacy coaches, reading specialists ********** Librarians have long worn many hats that improve the learning of students in the school. These include instructional leader, technology specialist, promoter of reading initiatives, and guardian of books. Once again, librarians find themselves called upon to sport yet another: coteacher with classroom teachers and reading specialists. With a focus on preparing students to be college and career ready, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ask students to grapple with complex grade-level texts and write research papers. Even at the kindergarten level, students engage in rigorous learning that asks them to participate in shared research and writing projects (National Governor's Association, 2010). In this article we suggest that this rigorous learning requires teachers to join forces with others in the building to ensure student success. Thus the librarian, reading specialist, and classroom teacher form coteaching teams that address difficult concepts in such a way that the library becomes a learning commons (Loertscher, 2014). In this learning commons space, learners experience scaffolded support with print and differentiated instruction (DI) (Tomlinson, 1999) to address the achievement potential of students as they engage firsthand with the learning tasks set forth by the CCSS. In the learning commons, the library functions as a dynamic arena where librarians, reading specialists, and classroom teachers bring individual talents to the instructional process in a coteaching team. The idea of the learning commons still allows for print books to play a vital part in instruction; however, digital technologies also play a large role. Due to the rigor of the CCSS, this idea of a learning commons comes just in time. For the past ten to fifteen years, administrators have continuously called upon librarians to take a larger role in the literacy arena (Robins & Antrim, 2012). Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (AASL, 2009a) contends that librarians are uniquely positioned to affect reading outcomes of students. In many school districts, administrators have asked librarians to provide collaborative support to classroom teachers to identify materials and methods to support struggling readers. While in other districts, administrators have asked librarians to lead response to intervention groups. While these efforts to suggest and provide materials hold potential, they fall short due to the fact that one individual has limited impact in comparison with what teams of librarians, reading specialists, and classroom teachers might achieve in a learning commons. LIBRARIANS' ROLE IN COLLABORATIVE TEAMS IN THE LEARNING COMMONS If the expectation for librarians extends beyond the support already provided to include coteaching while also attending to duties in the library, what should librarians do? Build upon what they already know! Librarians regularly assist with the analysis of assessment data to determine students' and teachers' needs, the integration of technology, the provision of resources, and the implementation of instruction in the physical library space. For decades, librarians' instruction consisted of isolated units of study. These discrete units stand in stark contrast to Turner's (1993) suggestions that librarians join forces with teachers to plan instruction that extends and enriches classroom curriculum. The American Association of School Librarians (2009) calls for librarians to collaborate with instructors to create relevant instruction that motivates students to be lifelong learners. While collaboration is not a new idea, what is new are the dynamics that make up the coteaching team and ways to facilitate the alliance. Librarians support coteaching teams by serving as a connective agent with a physical and virtual venue: the learning commons. During the coteaching team's planning phase, librarians supply a common virtual space within the learning commons that expedites planning. The virtual learning commons alleviates planning concerns of distant geographic spaces and incompatible release times. …

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Beaird, Marilyn Miller. "The Effect of Increased Collaboration Among the Library Media Specialist and School Personnel on Perceptions of the Roles and Responsibilities of the Library Media Specialist." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2221/.

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This study measured and explored changes in perceptions of the roles and responsibilities of the library media specialist when the level of collaboration increased. Seven library media specialists targeted four members of their educational communities with whom to increase collaborative activities. Before and after the collaboration began, the library media specialists, the teachers with whom they chose to collaborate, other members from the same educational community, and a control group that did not participate in increased collaboration were given a roles and responsibilities rank-order form. This form was used to measure changes in perceptions regarding the importance of the three roles and selected responsibilities related to the three roles before and after the collaborative experience. The library media specialists and the targeted teachers also kept reflection logs to record factors that enhanced collaboration, factors that inhibited collaboration, and any changes in their teaching style as a result of the collaborative experience. Results indicate that the participating library media specialists themselves experienced the most change. Role identification remains a problem as library media specialists seek to become teaching partners with classroom teachers yet still must keep the library media center aligned with school and district goals and move toward making it an information center that provides information resources for all members of the educational community in an effective, efficient and timely manner. Major enhancers to increased collaboration included flexible scheduling of the library, sharing ideas and resources, partnership in teaching, and student achievement. Major inhibitors included time, wanting to keep things the way they were, and lack of resources. Changes in teaching practice included working with another professional instead of in isolation, integrating many resources into the lesson to provide for the learning needs of all students, the incorporation of technology into the lesson, and an awareness of the roles of both library media specialists and teachers.

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Jowkar, Abdolsrasool. "The education of teacher-librarians in the Islamic Republic of Iran : a competency approach." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1991. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7035.

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Education has a vital role in the cultural and socio-economic development of a country and the success of an educational system depends partly on the information infrastructure of the society. The school library, as the first link in the hierarchical chain of the information infrastructure and an integral component of the school's instructional information system, supports the school's educational goals and objectives. The main key to the successful achievement of a school library programme is its librarian. At present, the majority of Iranian school libraries are run by teacher-librarians who rarely possess any formal library education. These librarians should be well equipped with the competencies needed to perform their jobs effectively. The intention of this survey is, therefore, to suggest a library programme for the education of teacher-librarians. Included is an overview of the educational system of Iran, the information infrastructure, situation of school libraries and different methods of curricular design, in order to define an appropriate approach to education for the purpose of planning a library programme for teacher-librarians in Iran. In examining library programmes, several standards and studies published in a range of developing and developed countries were analysed, and a data gathering instrument was constructed. This was administered and analysed to determine the competencies required of teacherlibrarians in Iran. The resulting competencies are compared to the competencies considered essential for school librarians in three comparative international surveys and the school librarian's job description, as provided by the Iranian Ministry of Education.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Duets: A Harmony of Reading Teachers and Librarians for Differentiated Instruction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2390.

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Yeung, Po-shan, and 楊寶山. "Attitudes of teacher-librarians in secondary schools of Hong Kong towards professional development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31960583.

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Stanton, Judith Carroll. "An Investigation of Teacher Librarians' Use of Interactive Whiteboard Technology for Literacy Instruction." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/203.

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Although school systems have made investments in technology with the intention of raising student scores on state and national tests, improvements in student achievement have not always followed. The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher librarians' use of interactive whiteboards to improve student literacy. This qualitative case study was guided by the theory of social constructivism, wherein individuals learn through interaction with peers and knowledgeable others. The research questions were focused on how teacher librarians integrated multi-literacies and technological skills into pedagogical goals. Data were collected from a 4-member focus group interview, a questionnaire delivered to a subset of 3 teacher librarians, and public documents of the school system. All data were color-coded and analyzed for emergent common themes. The findings indicated that although the teacher librarians used interactive whiteboard technology to teach multiple literacies and technological skills to students and fellow teachers, 2 of the 4 participants did not use all of the interactive whiteboard tools. Based upon the findings, a professional development project was designed to improve educators' technological and multi-literacies skills in the school system. Recommendations include creating a repository of technology rich lesson plans, and expanding collaboration among educators. Increasing multi-literacies and technological skills may lead to positive social change through the enhancement of students' literacy and technology skills at school and for future employment.

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Durbin, Dayna N. "The Effects of Pre-Service Training on Collaboration Between Classroom Teachers and Media Specialists." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/426.

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An electronic survey of 40 elementary teachers of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district in the Triangle area of North Carolina was conducted to determine the effects of pre-service training on how often teachers collaborate with school library media specialists. Teachers were asked if they had received training in the media center and collaborating with media specialists, and were also asked to report the number of times they had collaborated in the previous semester. Although a statistical relationship between the amount of pre-service training in collaboration and frequency of collaboration was not established, the survey indicated that teachers who had received information about the media center in general were more likely to collaborate with media specialists. In order to increase instructional partnerships, it is recommended that schools of education increase information about the media center in their curriculum to better prepare pre-service teachers to collaborate with media specialists.

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Hays, Lauren. "Academic Librarians' Teacher Identity Development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning| A Mixed Methods Study." Thesis, Northwest Nazarene University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10810849.

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This dissertation was an explanatory sequential mixed methods study that sought to understand academic librarians’ involvement and experience in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Specifically, the researcher studied academic librarians’ teacher identity development through SoTL. Quantitative data were collected from a survey sent to the Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy listserv. Semi-structured interviews with seven academic instruction librarians who took part in the survey provided qualitative data that complemented and built upon the survey results. The theoretical framework, Communities of Practice, guided and supported the research. Results from the study indicated that academic instruction librarians are involved in SoTL for a variety of reasons, but primarily because they believe participation in SoTL improves their teaching. Also, the null hypothesis of if librarians engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, their identities will be the same as they were before was rejected, and the research hypothesis was accepted. Engagement in SoTL does impact academic instruction librarians’ teacher identity. After involvement in SoTL most research participants reported that their view of themselves as a teacher grew. Participation in SoTL also impacted academic instruction librarians’ instructional practices. After participation in SoTL, study participants reported an increase in their attitude toward self-improvement and in their use of active learning strategies. These study findings have implications for Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate schools, academic library administrations, and professional development organizations.

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Mugabe, Mover M. "Information resources, information skills and education : an exploratory study of information literacy education in community junior secondary schools in the North-East district of Botswana and the role of teacher-librarians and school libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10927.

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Bibliography: leaves 155-160.
One of the fundamental challenges of the information era is how to ensure that the majority of the members of a given society are information literate in order to deal with problems of inequitable access to and use of information as an empowerment tool for socio-economic progress. A variety of educational and training strategies have been developed and tried in different parts of the world to address this challenge. This study investigates the nature of information literacy education in community junior secondary schools in the North-East district of Botswana and the role of teacher-librarians and school libraries in such a process.

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Roach, Catharyn. "Attitudes Toward the Contemporary Role of the Library Media Specialist in the Overall Elementary School Program in North Central Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332317/.

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The purpose of this study, in addition to measuring and comparing attitudes of teachers, principals and library media specialists toward the role of the school library media specialist, was to identify and measure factors contributing to those attitudes. Nine factors were identified. Further path analysis revealed that the performance level of the library media specialist had the most influence on principals' and teachers' attitudes toward the Consultant, Technological and Instructional Roles. For principals and teachers, staff development had the most influence on attitudes toward the Management Role, while involvement in the school-wide program was most influential for library media specialists.

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Recker, Mimi, Jim Dorward, Deonne Dawson, Sam Halioris, Ye Liu, Xin Mao, Bart Palmer, and Jaeyang Park. "You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Teacher Development and Use of Digital Library Resources." Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106196.

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This article presents findings from approximately 150 users who created instructional projects using educational digital library resources. One hundred of these users were teachers participating in professional development workshops on the topic of digital libraries. Our iterative approach to tool and workshop development and implementation was based on a framework that characterizes several input, output, and process variables affecting dissemination of such technologies in educational contexts. Data sources involved a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, including electronic surveys, interviews, participant observations, and server log file and artifact analyses. These multiple and complementary levels of analyses reveal that despite teachers reporting great value in learning resources and educational digital libraries, significant and lasting impact on teaching practice remains difficult to obtain.

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Ryan, John Nicholas. "A critical policy analysis of the new opportunities fund-ICT training for teachers and school librarians." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444532.

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Downey, Paula Marie. "Internship report : a case study of Internet usage at St. John's Collegiate /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0017/MQ55502.pdf.

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Chang, Ju-Fang, and 張薷方. "A Study on Collaboration Relationship between Teacher Librarian and Subject Teacher in Elementary School: from Teacher Librarian’s Perspective." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7wjme6.

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國立臺灣師範大學
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It’s been five years after the implementation of teacher librarian in elementary schools in Taiwan. The important mission of this implementation is to promote library instruction and to integrate educational resources into courses by collaborating with subject teacher. This study attempts to understand the relationship between teacher librarian and subject teacher, to explore their collaboration situation and factors influencing their collaboration. In this study, primary research method is questionnaire survey and then secondary research method is focus group. The program of Teacher librarian to Promote Reading started in 2009. Up to 2014, there were total of 308 elementary schools participating in this program. The target group of this study consisted of these 308 teacher librarians. Results were summarized as follows: First, teacher librarian develops relationship with subject teacher by taking the initiative. The most collaborated subject was found to be Chinese literature. Second, teacher librarian and subject teacher had low-end collaboration by comparison. Third, administrative teacher librarian perform integrated instruction better than subject teacher librarian. Fourth, school participating in teacher librarian program for one to two years performs traditional role of teacher librarian facet is better than the school participating in teacher librarian program less one year. Fifth, collaboration is better achieved among peers sharing the same philosophy and goals and showing mutual respect and trust. Teacher librarian who hold a positive work attitude and have support from supervisors in school can also lead to better collaboration with subject teacher. Six, larger school size, lower recognition of the role of teacher librarian by subject teacher can hinder their collaboration. Lastly, there are three difficulties and problems in collaboration relationship between teacher librarian and subject teacher, including course reduction, budget cut and the role orientation of teacher librarian. Based on the results of this study, there are several suggestions. First, to facilitate collaboration between subject teacher and teacher librarian, a professional learning community can be built. Next, the role of the teacher librarian needs to be more recognized and understood by subject teacher, in order to promote opportunities of collaboration and professional development. Lastly, for the ministry of education, adjusting allocation of financial need based on school size and human resources as well as professional position for teacher librarian is needed. Future research can explore the high-end collaboration school by interview and conduct research from subject teacher’s point of view then compare with teacher librarians’ perspectives.

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Faraj, Fatma May. "Three Middle-school Teachers and a Teacher-librarian Collaborating: A Narrative Inquiry." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42619.

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Teacher-librarians play an important role in the middle school library, not only with supporting students with books and technology, but by collaborating with teachers when planning and teaching literature circles. Using narrative methods, I worked collaboratively with three teachers. The purpose of this inquiry is to achieve a better understanding of the experiences of the teachers and my role as a teacher-librarian and why they collaborated with me when planning literature circles. For this qualitative research paper, I used narrative methods to explore the phenomena of collaboration and share my experiences of being a teacher-librarian through story. Some of the findings that are explored in this paper are: the importance of professional partnerships (open communication), access to resources (including texts, technology and space), and differentiated instruction (planning for the students).

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Detwiler, Georgia. "Teacher and librarian perceptions of the elementary library media specialist's role." 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=RjSfAAAAMAAJ.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Missouri State University, 1990.
Typescript (photocopy). eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63).

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Hufton, Amanda. "The role of the elementary school teacher-librarian in British Columbia." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5357.

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Teacher-librarians have an important role in education today. That role encompasses a wide spectrum of responsibilities making them an equal and valued partner in the education process. Due to the limited nature of Canadian research into the perceptions of the role of the teacher librarian and School Library Resource Centres, the purpose of this study is to address the changing role through both the literature and models in practice in schools, and discover what change is occurring and will continue to occur, despite economical restraints that limit budgets and cut teacher-librarian positions. The major research questions of this thesis are the following: 1. Do teachers, teacher-librarians and administrators all have the same vision of the role of the teacher-librarian and School Library Resource Centre? 2. Is there a difference in the perception of the role of the teacher librarian in part time schools and full time schools? 3. Is there a difference in the perception of the role of the teacher librarian by teacher-librarians, based on degree of education held? The design of this thesis is survey research. A questionnaire was mailed to all of the elementary schools in one urban school district in British Columbia. In each school the administrator, teacher-librarian, one intermediate teacher and one primary teacher were asked to complete the form. The results, once analyzed, indicate that all of the respondents have a similar vision of the School Library Resource Centre. This vision correlates to that of the Canadian literature reviewed. It was perceived that the primary roles of the teacher-librarian are Instruction, Consultation and Library Management. While there are individual differences between the 4 subject groups based on how important they rate a task, all of the statements are consider a role of the teacher -librarian. Both the education of a teacher-librarian and the amount of time he/she holds in the position do not demonstrate significant differences in their view of the teacher-librarian. In addition, the results of this study also demonstrate some ambiguity between what is perceived as the role of the teacher-librarian by all subject groups and what is happening in elementary schools in reality. This is most evident in the anecdotal comments. While highlighted as a significant change to the School Library Resource Centre program, several teachers comment on the lack of cooperative planning and teaching that actually takes place. A last finding of this study is the importance of technology to School Library Resource Centres, and as a consequence, the importance of the role of the teacher-librarian in consulting with teachers and students to maximize and facilitate the use of that technology. Overwhelmingly, this study demonstrates that teacher-librarians and School Library Resource Centres are both crucial to the education process today. As the understandings of the importance of their role in education continue to increase, so will the support and recognition that are essential to their continued existence in times of restraint.

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