SDCOE Professional Growth Day For Library Media Educators

May 20, 2011Bring A Book To The Beach

The Indispensable High School Librarian’s Role in Instruction

Steve Montgomery

Teacher-LibrarianEl Cajon Valley High School

smontgom@guhsd.net

BEACH

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Since the theme of today’s conference is “Bring a Book to the Beach,” I thought we might as well get in the spirit! As teacher-librarians, we need to be…

Here’s what I mean…

Example #1…

Example #2…

Here is a blank template you can use to assess your own teacher-librarian projects…

Were you bold? Did you make yourself essential? Were you an active planner/participant? Did you work collaboratively with others? Did you keep your eye on the “big picture”?

Some Additional B.E.A.C.H. Reading

At the end of my presentation, I promised to share with you some additional readings/resources on these topics.

Thanks to great work by Suzanne Sannwald--our wonderful Library Services Supervisor (and all-around Library Guru)—we now have a terrific “Library Program Resources” page on our Virtual Library Learning Commons. There you will find links to the Model School Library Standards, the

Common Core Standards, AASL’s Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, and an outstanding collection of research and professional development resources for teacher-librarians and others.

You may access this site by

clicking on the icon below:

One item that I mentioned is not on this site—the article by Seth Godin, where he writes about “The Future of the Library.”

It really is fascinating reading!

Here’s the link to Seth’s blog:

Seth Godin on“The Future of the Library”

SDCOE Professional Growth Day For Library Media Educators

May 20, 2011Bring A Book To The Beach

The Indispensable High School Librarian’s Role in Instruction

Steve Montgomery

Teacher-LibrarianEl Cajon Valley High School

smontgom@guhsd.net

Thank you for attending my workshop!