“Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete”
― Steven Johnson
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Think:
“A classroom coach needs to assist students rather than working and thinking for them. Coaches remove obstacles to learning or help students overcome them. The purpose of this is not to make the process easy, but rather to shift the focus on the learning rather than the obstacles”
“A classroom coach needs to assist students rather than working and thinking for them. Coaches remove obstacles to learning or help students overcome them. The purpose of this is not to make the process easy, but rather to shift the focus on the learning rather than the obstacles”
Many teacher librarians see themselves as the coach/facilitator of students learning. This article focuses on the teacher as coach, and with that, provides concrete ideas for how to be a great classroom coach!
- Leave a thought in the comments for this blog on how you see yourself as a coach in the library. When you leave a comment you will be entered to win a great prize at the May TL Celebration!
Celebrations:
Congratulations to Jon Georgitis who was awarded a $2,000.00 grant from NEA to begin a Makerspace in the Centennial Middle School Library. Read more about it on his blog!
Learning for You!
- The Colorado State Library is pleased to announce that we are offering four (4) ISTE 2016 conference registration scholarships! Our goal is to develop leaders within the Colorado library community by helping library staff who might not otherwise be able to attend the ISTE Conference in Denver June 26 - 29, 2016. Deadline to apply is Monday, Feb 8th at 5:00pm! See Scholarship Application and Requirements
- Did you know the Colorado Library maintains a Digital Literacy Resources site with information and resources for K-12 educators? Check it out!
What to Know @BVSD this Month!
- Upcoming Libinar: What We Learned in the eBook Pilot @BVSD Monday, Feb 8th beginning at 3:00pm
- Curious about what happened with the ebook pilot at bvsd? Thinking about exploring ebooks in your library?
- Secondary PD Day is February 12th at Monarch K8 from 8:00am-11:30am. We will be learning about the BVSD Innovation Guidelines. We will also have Becky Russell, Digital Literacy Specialist @CDE, lead a workshop on “The Shift” in libraries. This is the same presentation that our elementary TL’s experienced in their January PD.
Connect Beyond BVSD!
- Still want to know more about Makerspaces? The Boulder Public Library Makerspace Grand Opening is Thursday, February 18th from 5:00-7:30pm. What an amazing opportunity to see how a library can provide and dream through this kind of space!
On way I "coach" students that helps them become more engaged in books and reading is to actively involve them indecisions about weeding and acquisitions. They have a "vote" on books up for Discard, and know that their "suggesions" usually end up being purchased for the collection.
ReplyDeleteI definitely see my coaching role in the library as "fostering partnerships." I constantly connect teachers to collaborate and help each other by telling about what I've seen them do on their own. I also always say things to students such as, "Tell us how you found that or what process did you take to get there?"
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