By Kathleen Roy, Library Media Center Director,Cretin-Derham Hall High School, St. Paul, MN
Why are we teachers first? Why not school librarians who do it all? Managers-teachers-procurers-developers-organizers-programmers-etc., etc., etc….
是的，我们做了很多不同的东西，穿很多帽子，但是是什么让我们的工作，所以显著 - 在任何学校，任何年级水平 - 是我们的老师;我们应该戴在我们头上的所有其他帽子的顶部那顶帽子。为什么？由于教学专业的合法性，无论是科学和艺术，使我们在厚厚的东西学校做到：塑造年轻人为他们的下一个学术的努力，为他们的职业和生活。金宝搏彩票图书馆员，我们可以说：“这不是我为什么走进图书馆工作，”但如果你是在一所学校没有任何借口 - 教学和学习是中心舞台。
Why identify with this role above all others? The other roles that a school librarian plays are all tied to teaching and learning, but they don’t entail the actual act of teaching. No doubt those roles support teaching and learning; we need to have a collection, buy the materials the school needs, develop relationships with teachers and students, develop programs, organize “stuff” in our libraries, and yes, even handle the tech side of things. But to teach a student how to find information and use it effectively and ethically, to create a project from a well-researched thesis, to discover new information that leads to new learning, that is the heart and soul of teaching. Moreover, a teacher’s job is to arouse curiosity, foster inquiry, help students plow through roadblocks, and give honest, critical feedback in the process. Across disciplines, school librarians learn the curriculum for each department so they can be well versed in what objectives are taught, how courses are sequenced, and what the learner outcomes are in order to best embed information literacy objectives seamlessly into the project goal at hand.
我们的图书馆部门最近与一个教师团队，其学科包括英语，社会学和宗教的合作。我们创造了九年级学生跨学科的课程，并努力使在这些课程方面的连接。要求我们的图书馆在创建伊丽莎白时代的概述帮助，我们创造了学生站，了解时代的基本知识。我们作为图书馆的目标是让学生从最可能的来源学习，还要学会导航印刷，电子书，数据库和网络资源。
在与教师的目标一致，我们设置一个旨在回答的基本问题和创造知识的基础六个站。我们的教学工作包括的内容，但最重要的方面是我们与个别学生参与，因为他们访问的信息。与小团体合作，我们教的钥匙良好的搜索，笔记，总结和回应。负责该课程的老师认为我们老乡教育工作者，他们在一个雄心勃勃的项目合作伙伴。
That’s the reason why I get out of bed and come to work each day; collaborative, inquiry-based teaching and learning. When I left the classroom I was committed to continuing to teach and to grow in the profession. As a school librarian my wish has been fulfilled. Now get out and teach!
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凯瑟琳·罗伊
Library Media Center Director
Cretin-Derham Hall High School, St. Paul, MN
凯瑟琳L.罗伊是白痴，Derham霍尔学校图书馆媒体中心主任在明尼苏达州圣保罗市。凯瑟琳也是有执照的K-12教师，喜欢观察她的爱好农场蜂箱一起工作作为一个团队来制作精美，甜蜜蜜。
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