Jenny L. Wyatt, Ed. S.

The University of Memphis

ICL 7730

June 21, 2012

The Value Added Library: Providing Purposeful Library,

Media, and Information Services to Teachers and Students

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

~Dr. Seuss

Comfortable seating for exploring books!Story rug and chair for storytelling and

making friends with wonderful characters!Shelves and shelves of books, organized in

labeled sections.Smartboard and projector for making lessons

interactive!

The Setting…

Award-winning texts

literature that can be used with writing, language arts, and research topics

Ebooks

Latest technology

Valuable Resources for Students…

Providing professional development that is valuable

Providing materials that help teachers meet the ever-changing demands of our role.

Creating an inviting space where teachers feel free to collaborate with others

Valuable Resources for Faculty…

Technology is a way of life for students, and it has been incorporated into the way they learn. “…the library can become the essential core of the school’s curricula with the librarian as the teacher if information literacy, one of the most important skills for 21st-century learners” (Mondloch, 2011, p. 45).

Providing information literacy through technology…

Student resources…Tennessee R.E.A.D.S.; http://

reads.lib.overdrive.com/793624FD-EED8-4ED4-AEBC-6A763B6D3706/10/391/en/Default.htm

Morristown-Hamblen Public Library, our local library; http://morristownhamblenlibrary.org/index.html

Tennessee Electronic Library; http://www.tntel.tnsos.org/

Providing a useful website with valuable tools for students and teachers…

Teacher resources:Tennessee Electronic Learning Center;

http://www.tnelc.org/

TN Core, a site about the switch to Common Core Standards; http://www.tncore.org/

Read Tennessee; http://www.readtennessee.org/

Tennessee Reading Association; http://tnreads.org/

List of trade books by subject; http://www.lebanon.k12.mo.us/profdev/picturethis_20050406.pdf

Providing a useful website with valuable tools for students and teachers…

Literacy Day: Involving the community in sharing the joy of reading

Accelerated ReaderLiteracy Carnival as a wrap-up for a year of

growth as readers!Summer Reading Program

Valuable Programs…

I will also be a valuable asset to the teachers by collaborating with them in their grade level meetings. Learning is more meaningful when there is continuity across the curriculum. One journal states, “ A school that believes in rigorous and relevant student-focused learning also commits to a mission-centered mindset…all stakeholders believe that the learner-based accomplishments they are in business to produce are challenging, possible, and worthy of the attempt”(Zmuda & Harada, 2008, p. 15).

Valuable Collaboration…

Not only are we able to light the torch of literacy, we are able to carry the flame in all that we do. As partners in education, we can put the “value” in value-added.

The Value-Added Library

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