"School library and information technology programs are a vital resource for student learning. This video to highlight the essential role teacher librarians play in information and technology literacy instruction, reading advocacy, and information management. More information available on our website: http://WLMA.org"
25 - 27 AUGUST 2013:
Bialik College, in collaboration with the Harvard School of Education, is delighted to invite you to the 4th Cultures of Thinking Conference. The conference theme is:
Telling Our Stories of Learning: Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?
* How we can leverage the cultural forces that exist in our classrooms to constantly
create an ever more powerful culture of thinking?
* What are we doing as educators to provide rich opportunities for our students to
develop as thinkers?
* Who are our students becoming as a result of their time
spent in this thoughtful learning environment?
* Who are we, the teachers, becoming as a result of our
time spent in this culture? How has it changed our
role as teachers?
* How can a culture of thinking be created, nurtured and
retained across our classrooms, schools, and nation?
The conference will commence with breakfast and a plenary session on the morning of Sunday 25 August. It will continue until Monday afternoon with plenary sessions with the Harvard educators each day and concurrent presentations and workshops with practising educators throughout the conference.
Registration includes all plenary and concurrent sessions, breakfast Sunday morning, lunch and refreshment breaks on Sunday and Monday and a social function on Sunday evening.
All sessions of the conference will be held at:
Bialik College, 429 Auburn Road,
East Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
"In order to make this program grow, students will have to take a role in terms of creating and managing their badges. Of course, we will be there to guide the students, but it will require students to be a little more creative with their time in the library. We feel this will be a positive program to help student learn time management skills, as well as increase their reading throughout the school year."
IPAF aims to highlight the role of copyright and how the choices consumers make can contribute to the future of the film and television community in Australia.
"Margaret Kristin Merga outlines her compelling research into this area.
Of particular interest is the role of librarians in schools in supporting struggling readers, as these students may be increasingly disadvantaged as they move through the years of schooling. Teacher librarians provided support by identifying struggling readers, providing them with age and skill-appropriate materials, undertaking skill scaffolding supporting choice, supporting students with special needs, providing one-to-one matching, promoting access to books, enhancing the social position of books and reading, reading aloud to students, facilitating silent reading, and preparing students for high-stakes literacy testing."