Dreaming of Herrings

I am feeling like a fully soaked sponge at the moment. I am dripping with words and phrases at the moment. They are kind of swimming around in my head when I sleep. I'm still trying to put them all together coherently. Perhaps this is normal after a break in study for twenty years with two children in between. I completed my Bachelor Of Ed straight after my Dip Teach. The academic part of my brain is still trying to kick in.
I realise now that with slight panic that the expectations I had of myself as Teacher Librarian need to be re examined. All those roles! I have been focusing more on the role of  the teacher and realise how my skills as a leader, resource manager and collaborator have a long way to go. Can I do it? Realistically.  I know a TL who I think is exceptional. She is extremely dedicated to her job, but I fear she has little time for anything else.  With the busy lives we all have ,and the demands of family I am starting to wonder. . Perhaps by the time I get the hang of it,  or even get a permanent TL position , I'll be ready for retirement.  Maybe time for a cuppa!

The Seed

The seed was planted for me when I was at school. Our school library was no ordinary library. It looked like no other building I had ever seen. It was built in the shape of a dome. A 'Bini Dome' as it became known in the seventies. To me and many others it was awe inspiring and out of this world. When you entered its doors you were in another world.

My Teacher Librarian was inspiring and passionate about books and storytelling. We walked in and sat in the deep carpeted wells that were sunken into the floor and lost ourselves in the stories that she told. We begged her for more at the end of each lesson and couldn't wait to get back in there at lunchtime. I had a long wait until year six when I became a library monitor. I loved that job!

That Teacher Librarian turned out to be Barbara Fienberg, one of the authors of the popular 'Tashi' series. Barbara wrote the books with her daughter Anna. I use her teaching today as model for my own teaching and I hope that I can instill a love of books in the same way that she has for me and others.

Testing! Testing! Very Testing!

After some trial and error. My Blog lives! This Blog exists to support my learning whilst completing the study of a Teacher Librarianship Degree (Master of Education).
Hopefully there will not be too much babble and jabber as my thoughts and ideas become more fluid. We all have different starting points on this learning journey, but hopefully we all end up where we want to be.