P7 Open Night last night. I love it. A chance to meet new pupils. A chance to show what the LRC does. What this Librarian does. A great opportunity to help the pupils feel like high school can’t be too scary if that library wumman works there.
And it was fun… but
I can’t help feeling a [...]
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Just
Posted in Education, enthusiasm, libraries, school, tagged brains, open night on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back to basics
Posted in learning and teaching, libraries, tagged classification on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new term, a new crop of assistants, happy to help so long as it doesn’t require too much work, and especially, too much thought. Tough.
This week is all about starting to get them familiar with the workings of the LRC, before I let them loose on the general school population. Today there were a [...]
A tidy library is never used: discuss
Posted in libraries, stuff and things, tagged tidyness on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a question: how tidy should a library be?
You will have guessed by now that I am not a tidy person by nature. I try, but it doesn’t come naturally to me. I do my best to keep the shelving and pupils’ areas tidy so they can be used appropriately, but my own workspace is [...]
Learning Wall
Posted in CPD, learning and teaching, libraries, professionalism, tagged cross-curricular, Curriculum for Excellence, learning wall on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was an in-service day with a focus on the Curriculum for Excellence (sorry, but the A in ACfE needs to go). Sessions on each of the four capacities, plus me and colleague on cross-curricular themes.
We wanted to make our bit interactive, and eventually settled on the Learning Wall. This was inspired by an idea [...]
Free periods
Posted in books, libraries, reading on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often sit down to write up my day of an evening, only to find that I have no idea what I actually did all day. I’ve been busy, but can I point to anything concrete?
Well, I had no classes this morning, and only one this afternoon. How to make best use of such luxury? [...]
Interrupting the Heart of the Curriculum
Posted in learning and teaching, libraries, professionalism, tagged interruptions on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a discussion on the School Librarians’ Network about how to get every department using the library. This post includes part of my contribution to the discussion (plus a lot more which I decided not to post because it sounded self-promoting. I’m quite happy showing off here though.)
Because librarians all believe the library is [...]
Reading
Posted in libraries, reading, storytelling, tagged teenagers, work on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After one too many arguments with a class of 2nd years, I have decided to ban all book borrowing. In fact, no reading at all. Why? Because “We don’t like reading” despite the fact that they’d happily sit for hours at a computer screen, flick througha pile of mags, devour the sports pages and cartoons… Nah, [...]
Head down, thumbs up
Posted in CPD, careers, investigations/classes, learning and teaching, librarians, libraries, tagged 6th years, discrimination investigation, dizziness, Glow, New Year hopes, Reading Trail, UCAS, university on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so it’s good to be back. I may have been stood up by the second class of the new year (teacher forgot), I may have accomplished nothing on my development plan, I may have two days to spend the rest of my budget or lose it, and have several squillion books to shelve, and [...]
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