ETL 503 - Assignment 1

Returning to study after nearly 10 years has been far from an easy task.  Whilst the transition has not been quite as smooth as I'd hoped, the learning curve has certainly been steep. 

If nothing else, I've certainly discovered how little I knew and understood about resourcing the curriculum and creating a comprehensive collection ... and this was despite the fact that it was something that I did on a daily basis!  A terrible confession I know, but perhaps it's more of a reflection on the school that I work at rather than my own incompotency.  Rightly or wrongly, there is a huge gap between how classroom teachers and the library work.  Whilst there is plenty of lip service paid to collegial approaches yo our work, the fact is that we have very little to do with each other.  Classroom teachers usually don't have the time nor the skills necessary to acquire the resources necessary to target all our students, yet the teacher-librarians do.  So why don't we utilise the teacher librarians in our schools?  Is it fear of exposing our own classroom practice to criticism or is it because we would like to think that we know it all ... sounds more like ignorance to me!