Information Literacy - Wonderings

• inFOSmart Resource - is this a useful resource? How well is it being used? How do you market this to teachers? Would children benefit from being directly taught some aspects of this framework and what would those elements be?

• Library - how do children use the library now? How could we challenge that and restructure it so that this time is used to encorporate inFOSmart/information literacy skills? Now that we have the new computers in the library, how does this change how we use it (eg. class in the library, others come in to use computers, etc.). We have a chunk of money to use on library development, how will we use this to best impact on learning? What people do with the library and what they'd like to do.

• What are the skills of our teachers in information literacy? How do we continue to develop the skills of teachers in information literacy teaching throughout the year? How can we continue to market the inFOSmart resource so it is used and making a difference to learning?

Our Way Thinking

Wonderings

• What is “Our Way”?
• What can we do to ensure we do make a difference and our work is used?
• What does drive the teaching and learning in the school?
• What is the philosophy behind the teaching and learning in the school?
• Are we starting to lose ‘our way’?
• Is ‘our way’ actually the way we are going?
• What are some smaller steps we can put in place to ensure we are on ‘our way’?
• Do our children/ parents have an understanding of MAD on learning and the schools philosophy?


We are aware our way potentially encompasses many things and think we need to narrow our focus in order to be effective.
We are thinking about focusing on MAD on Learning and developing supports for this and strengthening the KC documents that we already have in place.

Check out our conference on the intranet for further information and the googledoc link.

Cheers, Claire

Information Literacy QLC wonderings

# Develop skills of teachers in information literacy teaching throughout the year (what would those skills be?).
# Implement the inFOSmart resource so it is used and making a difference to learning.
# Continue to develop plans for the new library.
# Deliver a staff meeting and a parent information evening on selected topics.