Lilac 2019 Making the Invisible Visible: Developing collaborative practice models
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Presentation on the collaborative practice between teachers and librarians in New Zealand and the place of information literacy and critical thinking skills in this practice
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Lilac 2019 Making the Invisible Visible: Developing collaborative practice models
- 1. collaborative practice models in New Zealand Making the invisible visible Developing
- 2. Nau te raurau Naku te raurau Ka ki te kete o tatou With your knowledge And my knowledge Our baskets will be full
- 3. What is Collaborative Practice?
- 4. “A process in which two or more individuals work together to integrate information in order to enhance student learning.” Patricia Montiel-Overall, 2005 What is Collaborative Practice?
- 5. “When librarians and teachers work together, students achieve higher levels of literacy, reading, learning, problem-solving and information and communication technology skills.” IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto, 1999 What is Collaborative Practice? “Collaboration means working smarter together, rather than harder alone.” Ministry of Education, New Zealand
- 6. “Working collaborativelywith librarians contributes to our ability to teach cross-curricular units of work.” K. Sullivan, Teacher (2012) Senga’s Space
- 7. REFLECT INQUIRE: What do the students need to learn? REFLECT: Do I have the expertise? YES: How can I develop my pre-existing skills? NO: How can I ensure students get the best opportunities to learn? COLLABORATE TOGETHER: How can we develop the knowledge we offer our students?INQUIRE GROW
- 10. “The gapbetween secondary and tertiaryeducation in terms of literacy and the learning environment is bigger than anyone is acknowledging.” Emerson, Kilpin & Feekery (2014)Senga’s Space
- 11. Emerson, L., Kilpin, K., White, S., Greenhow, A., Macaskill, A., Feekery, A… O’Connor, R. (2018). Under-recognised, underused, and undervalued: School libraries and librarians in New Zealand secondary school curriculum planning and delivery. Curriculum Matters 14, 48-68. https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0029
- 13. If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives. Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator Senga’s Space
- 14. Don’t panic. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Senga’s Space
- 19. The Process 2.0
- 27. 2.0
- 30. Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes Senga’s Space
- 31. Tūtira mai ngā iwi Tātou tātou e Tūtira mai ngā iwi Tātou tātou e Whai-a te marama-tanga me te aroha - e ngā iwi! Ki-a ko tapa-tahi, Ki-a kotahi rā. Tātou tātou e. Line up together, people All of us, all of us. Stand in rows, people All of us, all of us. Seek after knowledge and love of others - everybody! Be really virtuous And stay united. All of us, all of us. Waiata – Tūtira mai
- 33. Senga White Research & Learning Coordinator Southland Boys’ High School Email: sengaw@windowslive.com Website: http://sengawhite.nz http://tertiaryprep.nz Twitter: @motherofwinter
- 34. References Education Review Office (2005). Student Learning in the information landscape. Wellington, New Zealand: Education Review Office. Emerson, L. (2018). Hidden in plain sight: Secondary school libraries. Retrieved from https://educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-lisa-emerson-hidden-in-plain-sight-secondary-school-library-services/ Emerson, L., Kilpin, K., White, S., Greenhow, A., Macaskill, A., Feekery, A… O’Connor, R. (2018). Under- recognised, underused, and undervalued: School libraries and librarians in New Zealand secondary school curriculum planning and delivery. Curriculum Matters 14, 48-68. https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0029 Ministry of Education & National Library of New Zealand. (2002). The school library and learning in the information landscape. Wellington, New Zealand: Learning Media.
Editor's Notes
- Introduction and mihi – welcoming everyone from the four winds to our time together here at Nottingham University I am of Scottish decent, having been transplanted to NZ when I was a pre-schooler. Maori have a deep connection to their place in the world and have a strong affinity to their mountain, their river and their Iwi. And to prove we’re all learners together, at the end of my presentation, if I’m brave enough – I will share a waiata, and invite you to participate. I am in the UK thanks to a scholarship to investigate collaborative practice and librarian leadership – have been a librarian for almost 20 years – am professionally registered and have a postgrad in digital and collaborative learning, which is the first part of a Masters in Contemporary Education. I’d like this to be a conversation so please feel free to make comments, ask questions as we go through
- Not enough to create a haven of true learning in your library – you must spread that environment throughout the school – David Lankes
- Brabara Gray, someone else who has written extensively on the subject, considers the whole point of collaboration is a “process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible.” Librarians – particularly in secondary or tertiary institutions – are better able to see the need for teachers and librarian working together. Not just a subject specialist, but recognises the transferability of ILS that teachers often don’t.
- The school library is about empowerment, connectivity, engagement, interactivity, and its outcome is knowledge construction – Ross Todd In our NZ context, there is no mandate for school libraries – and my understanding is that the UK is the same Meaningful discussions about the place of school libraries in education in NZ has been missing for a long time. ERO report on the information landscape found wide disparities and made a number of recommendations – all of which were largely ignored.
- Teachers who get it are like gold. A former English colleague of mine has articulated the benefits of cross curricular work, and following our collaborative efforts, went on to grow similar practices with teaching colleagues in other schools. Research affirms the certain elements vital to successful teacher librarian collaboration – the people and their relationships – skills and temperament of librarians – combining the professional skills – understanding of librarian skills by teachers – sense of purpose, trust, collegial respect and support and growth mindset.
- She put together this flow chart for a presentation we gave last year at an education conference in NZ. I like that no matter whether a teacher feel’s they have the expertise to teach these skills or not, this pathway always leads back to collaboration, inquiry and reflection
- Librarians need to be considered within the curriculum – we don’t and shouldn’t sit outside it The place of the library and the library staff shouldn’t rest with individual schools but should be mandated by government Otherwise we’re a “nice to have” not a “need to have” Our professional skills and qualifications are often misunderstood or not understood at all which is a barrier to genuine collaboration
- Research consensus suggests teacher/librarian collaboration has a verifiable track record of raising student achievement. TLRI 2013-14 – Investigating academic literacy across secondary and tertiary sectors. They identified that the heart of this gap was the fundamental misunderstandings about literacy and transition between teachers across the sectors, students independent learning skills, and a lack of communication across the sectors Also identified the importance of ILS hence the Information Literacy Spaces TLRI project
- From that initial 2 year TLRI, Lisa Emerson submitted a further funding project, specifically to investigating ILS skills across secondary and tertiary sectors AND the effect of collaborative practice on student learning.
- How I became involved – through transition to tertiary education Started work on tertiary prep in 2009 for students at the school I worked at – presented on this at LILAC in Glasgow 2012 – now a programme designed for students at any school or adults who have never studied at tertiary level, or haven’t done for some time
- This is something that should be explicitly added to teacher training – potentially through disciplinary literacy or inquiry learning
- So how does all of this fit into collaborative practice
- Embedding and collaborating – where I’d got to at the end of 2012
- Gathering my thoughts from where I’d come to where I was now
- The ILSF – flexible programme designed to introduce, practice and embed ILS, research, DLS & Library skills into the curriculum across subjects, departments & year levels
- Supported by activities – making the invisible visible Templates – to make the implicit explicit Iterative – to make the unknown known
- Embedding the digital literacy, critical thinking and digital curriculum into the programme. This year I’ve discovered the role of leadership in this process.
- Specific lesson planning – what the achievement standard is and the learning objectives
- Planning together and explicitly
- Importantly! Capturing what worked, what didn’t, what needs to be developed or changed for next time
- Pathways into the Junior School curriculum
- Creating ways of embedding it into our Junior School
- What seems most against collaborative practice is four letter word – TIME! So how do we tackle this and make sure the time is used wisely and to best effect. My approach to coloration – just in time, making notes, saying back what I heard and what we’ve planned and how is responsible for what. Often the rest can be done electronically (EGGS Tertiary Prep planning as example.) Feedback from the group
- Which brings us to the time where we’re going to finish with a traditional Maori waiata.
- By Barry Mangham [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons