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Sustaining your own Professional Development
As a secondary school teacher in Ontario, I think I’m entitled to 3 days of PD per year. Of course, what really busts my bacon about that is that the PD is dictated to me. I think I spend about 20 additional days per year seeking out professional development on my own terms. Of course,…
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What I do in the library
Here’s what I do all day. Based on Bill Ferriter’s blog post on Developing Technology Vision Statements, and Mike Eisenberg’s Vodcast on The Role of the Teacher – Librarian, I have aimed to define my job. The pie graph lays out my belief of how I spend my day/week/semester. Is your pie chart the same?
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Results of technology-use survey at Superconference12
Thank you everyone for participating! Here’s the link to the survey: Here are the results of the survey:
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How to sustain self-directed learning
This week at my secondary school of 1450 students, the department heads and the directions team and the administrators got together and started examining the feedback from our School Effectiveness Framework (SEF) visit in December. Of course, we’re doing lots of things well. Yet the same criticism kept arising in the next steps category: The…
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Sharon Coatney’s The Many Faces of Library Leadership
Abstract This paper examines in detail Sharon Coatney’s The Many Faces of School Library Leadership (2010) through the perspective of three influential topics: advocacy leadership, literacy promotion, and the changing definition of literacy. Reflections are made throughout on current practice in the secondary school library and questions for further study are suggested. Advocacy leadership Coatney’s…
threadbare beauty 