Went to meet Helen, the Head Teacher Librarian at my old school. She has moved schools and has generously offered to mentor me. Was interesting being in a school again. The library was designed by the same people who designed the library at me old school and Helen's observations about the lack of transparency in the library - the need for lower shelves so that a feeling of openness was created were interesting.
She answered all my beginners questions about catalogue management. It was very uncomfortable feeling like such a novice, when I am used to being the expert and running a department. I realised that I don't even know the basics - like how to catalogue a book!
Helen is extremely keen on promoting information literacy, and again as a Drama teacher this is not an area I have focused on - I had to ask her exactly what it was even though I have heard the term often enough. However, this is the area I think I am interested in. I want to know more about how to assist learning in a non didactic way. Unfortunately my style has been very teacher directed up until this point and I certainly believe that it is almost impossible to teach the HSC and not do this to some extent. But I want too learn more about learner centred teaching. Helen pointed out some good resources for this.
Feeling quite overwhelmed about the amount of study I need to do. Am wondering if I should drop a subject. We will see.
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