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Tapping Into The Skills Of School Librarians, Audrey Church Jun 2015

Tapping Into The Skills Of School Librarians, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article focuses on the role of school librarians in evaluating the teacher's effectiveness. It states that librarians has knowledge about various areas other than library including information literacy, media literacy and digital literacy. It further presents various scenarios that can be used for analyzing the performance of librarians including formal observation, self-evaluation and portfolio.


Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church Jun 2015

Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The authors offer insights on mentoring through collaborative partnerships based on personal experience. According to them, as school librarians, their relationship with their students can be described as a lifelong partnership of learning. Their graduate students under their university's School Library Media Preparation program are nontraditional adult learners.


Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You Can!, Audrey Church Jun 2015

Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You Can!, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article addresses a university school library instructor's approach, which features a meeting with preservice teachers early in the sequence of coursework. The majority of preservice teachers are not learning in their teacher preparation programs about the benefits of collaborative partnerships with teacher-librarians.


Guest Editors' Column: The Solo Librarian, Audrey Church, Frances Reeve Jun 2015

Guest Editors' Column: The Solo Librarian, Audrey Church, Frances Reeve

Audrey P. Church

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the guest editor discusses the various stories of solo school librarians in the U.S.