ETL 401 - The juggling act of resource based learning

Those schools that believe that they can achieve the resource based learning model without the help of the teacher librarian are kidding themselves ... and I come from a school who think they can! The fall out of this is teachers who are so over burdened with the task of creating an inquiry approach that they are turned off from the model. TLs can help to share the responsibility of creating an engaging and dynamic curriculum by assisting teachers to identify appropriate resources and to help teach students how to formulate their research tasks, question formulation and research techniques (including resource evaluation skills). There is no way that classroom teachers can adopt such educational models without the support of others ... this includes the principal who must set clear expectations that staff will embrace this educational approach. It's about working together to achieve the best for our students, particularly if we want them to become discerning life-long learners.