Innovation

How do you innovate?

1.       Find your passion. What are you both passionate about and have a degree of expertise in?
2.       What is happening in your immediate and further environments? What are the needs of the whole school - not necessarily related to school libraries? What is impacting on your school at state, national and international levels?
3.       How can you passion support your school in dealing with external influences? It is at this point that you can identify an idea that could be developed and become your innovation.

 My passion like so many other teacher librarians lies with books. The greatest satisfaction is when I can recommend a book to a teacher or student and have them come back and tell me how much they and their class enjoyed it.

The needs of my school like many others  presently is the implementation of the New English Syllabus. Staff are showing a greater interest than usual in being able to quickly identify and locate quality texts in our library which suit their teaching and learning requirements. Teachers have very little time to  locate and read existing and new resources . I do not have time to show resources during staff meetings due to time constraints. I am working on creating a blog using Blog Ed which regularly informs staff when new resources are added to our collection.
 I intend, if possible and time permits  linking these resources to book reviews and  other teaching resources.
I know this is not particularly innovative  but it has occurred out of a point of need. I don't know if it will be successful but I will trial it and evaluate.
The leadership team decided yesterday after discussions arose about lack of time to consider setting aside training and development time in th efuture to  allow teachers to  spend time reading and enjoying literature in the library.