The Read Up Room

  As my series of interviews come to an end, this time I will be sharing a perspective of librarian's work from Mr. Hill. I mostly shared from the females views but males are librarians too. Do you all think his perspective will be the same or different? If you keep reading then you will find out. Mr. Hill is an elementary librarian at a school that is known for the arts. With that being said, we looked at the shared foundations of collaborate, curate, explore, and engage.  Mr. Hill has introduced and explored a variety of tools with his students before. He often hopes that students will start sharing with their peers which tools has proven to been better to them during assignments to make those connections like they would not normally do. I learned how students grow when they're able to take advantage of their learning by organizing information and continuing to reflect on their product. I took away how students can explore from iPads to chromebooks when searching on database...

  I am back again to continue the school librarian's work highlights. I've been fortunate to have pleasant conversations with two librarians so far and I am sharing from an elementary perspective this time with Ms. Rybak. Ms. Rybak and I focused on the following four shared foundations: inquire, collaborate, explore, and engage. I learned how much things can get done with younger students because they're often in the imagination stage so they are always inquisitive of things that are going on. It would be easy for me to implement carpet talks into my future library setting as Ms. Rybak gauges their knowledge the first time they enter to have them think and recall prior knowledge from their last visit. As students are taking turns sharing their feedback to a peer, then they are showing how they can collaborate without the teacher consistently having to check on their table to ensure everyone is staying on task when completing work. Ms. Rybak did mention that the only challen...