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- Title: Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You can!
- Author : Teacher Librarian
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 170 KB
Description
RESEARCH SHOWS THAT PRESERVICE AND PRACTICING CLASSROOM TEACHERS ARE TYPICALLY UNAWARE OF THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER-LIBRARIAN AS A COLLABORATIVE INSTRUCTIONAL PARTNER AND THAT UNIVERSITY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS DO LITTLE TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES ONE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL LIBRARY INSTRUCTOR'S APPROACH TO REMEDY THIS DEFICIT BY WORKING THROUGH THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT USING A MULTILAYERED APPROACH--THAT IS, MEETING WITH PRESERVICE TEACHERS EARLY IN THEIR SEQUENCE OF COURSEWORK, AGAIN DURING THEIR JUNIOR YEAR, AND FINALLY JUST BEFORE THEIR GOING OUT FOR STUDENT TEACHING. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES WITH A CHALLENGE TO CATCH THEM-PRESERVICE TEACHERS--WHILE WE CAN. This year 1 began my 25th year in the school library profession. After 20 years as a building-level teacher-librarian in K-12 public schools, I am in my 5th year as a faculty member in the Department of Education of a 4-year public university. My experience tells me that the majority of classroom teachers do not have a clue as to what teacher-librarians can do to help them with instruction and their students with learning. My experience also tells me that the majority of preservice teachers are not learning in their teacher preparation programs about the benefits of collaborative partnerships with teacher-librarians. Neither practicing teachers nor preservice teachers see teacher-librarians as teachers and instructional partners, and this issue needs to be addressed.