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Creating A Dynamic Library At The Heart Of Your Academy
1. Creating a dynamic
library at the heart of
your academy
Laura Taylor and Pauline Guiney
Librarians,
Academies Lead Practitioners for Librarianship
City of London Academy and Capital City
Academy
4. Key Roles of the School Library
• Supporting teaching and learning
• Providing accommodation, resources,
support, expertise and knowledge in support
of the curriculum
• Developing independent learners
• Developing information literacy skills
• Promoting reading for pleasure
5. A dynamic school library:
is at the heart of a school learning community. It can provide a
flexible place for learning where project work, individual study
and group research can take place. [It] can provide young people
with the means to freely pursue subjects which fully engage
them, and promote wider reading. Good libraries can also
support teachers in adopting a broad range of teaching
strategies.
Charles Clarke
Improve your library: a self-evaluation process for secondary school libraries
(DfES 2004)
‘It is important for headteachers, senior managers and librarians
to work together to develop library provision that benefits the
whole school and it’s pupils’
Miriam Rosen
OFSTED’s Director of Education
Good School Libraries; Making a Difference to Leaning
(Guardian 21/3/2006
6. In the most effective schools:
•well trained specialist librarians had a positive impact on
teaching and learning.
•librarians were regarded as key middle managers and
encouraged to work closely with other members of staff.
•pupil librarians were also seen as an essential part of the best
library teams.
•librarians used a wide range of effective strategies to promote
reading, planned lessons alongside subject teachers and used
different ways to evaluate the impact of the library on pupils’
learning.
•libraries were well funded
“Good school libraries: making a difference to learning”(Ofsted, March 2006)
7. Weaknesses identified:
•funding for libraries varied significantly
•use by pupils once they entered key stage 4 declined
•too few opportunities for pupils to carry out research or work
independently - many pupils struggled to locate and make use of
information.
Good school libraries: making a difference to learning”(Ofsted, March 2006)
8. Actions to improve:
•increase use of the library by teachers and pupils throughout the day,
especially Key Stage 4 pupils
•develop the quality and coherence of programmes for teaching information
literacy to provide better continuity, challenge and progression in pupils’
learning
•promote pupils’ independent study by more effective use of the library
•improve evaluation of the library
•Those responsible for advising and supporting schools in developing their
libraries (SLS?) need to work with SLT, as well as librarians, in order to develop
provision and integrate developments with other whole-school priorities.
“Good school libraries: making a difference to learning”(Ofsted, March 2006)
9. Which one are
you?
What skills do you feel you need as a school librarian?
10. Inspection teams in all parts of the UK are keen to see:
•Well staffed, resourced & used libraries
•Clear curriculum links between LRC and curriculum staff who
work in partnership
•Effective use of library ICT
•Knowledgeable & motivated LRC staff actively promoting
effective use, information literacy & reading
•LRC links to out-of-hours learning
•A library portfolio of evidence of LRC work: copies of policies, the
LRC development plan, data from performance measurement,
examples of work done by pupils who used LRC resources and
guidance.
“Information Matters: developing information literacy skills through the secondary school LRC”
SLA, 2005
11. Strategies: ICT
“Young people’s engagement with ICT facilitates and motivates
literacy rather than displacing reading” (Elaine Millard, Differently
literate)
• Email and Video – conferencing
• Websites
• Accelerated Reader
• Blogs and wikis- pbwikis, wikispaces, blogspot,
wordpress,edublogs
• VLEs and intranets- forums, discussions, votes, quizzes,
• E-books and audio books
• Podcasts- Audacity, Voicethread
• RSS feeds
12. So what is Web 2.0?
• Uses the web as a platform rather than having to buy
and install software ( googledocs., Slideshare, )
• Encourages sharing, and portability of data –
Delicious and Furl, Flickr, Youtube etc
• Encourages creating data – blogs, ( weblogs-
blogger),social networking, ( Facebook,
Myspace)photograph sharing, (Flickr)collaborative
resources ( wikis)
• Allows information to come to you – RSS feeds
13.
14.
15. Some Web 2.0 tools to explore?
•www.philb.com- Phil Bradley- alias the guru!
•http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com
•http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/- 23 things to try
•www.pageflakes.com- RSS feeds ( Really Simple Syndication)
•http://delicious.com
•www.wordle.net
•www.voicethread.com
•www.rollyo.com
•www.slideshare.net
•www.flickr.com
•www.youtube.com
•http://issuu.com
•https://widgets.amazon.com/
•www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/- Filamentality
•www.fronter.com/southwark - in London replacing the LgfL.
(COLALibguest1 Acad3my
COLALibguest2 Acad3my
COLALibguest3 Acad3my
17. How can we make use of it in
libraries?
•Create a weblog http://schoolibrarians.blogspot.com
http://colareads.blogspot.com
•Create a start page :http://www.pageflakes.com/LTay007
•Share our bookmarks: http://www.delicious.com/LTay007
http://www.delicious.com/libraryweblinks
18. Blogs
• Stewart's Melville Library
• Holmesdale Technology College News
• Cumnock Academy Library Resource Centre
• Bramcote Hills LRC
• www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title
=School_libraries
• www.hutchielib.blogspot.com
• Joyce Valenza and Hey Jude
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/
• http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/
21. A Hotlist of Book Websites
www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbookwebla.html
A Hotlist of Word Games
www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listwordgamla.html
Boox – new website
www.readingagency.org.uk/projects/children/boox.html
22.
23. Strategies:
Create a Reading Culture
“The school library is ideally
placed to bring reading for
pleasure to life”
Paul Kropp “The Reading Solution” 1995
24. Creating a Reading Culture
Why read?
• Gateway to learning, personal and social
skills
• Develop imagination
• Stress relief
• Connects us to others
• Creative
• Helps you make sense of yourself and the
world around you
25. Creating a Reading Culture
• PIRLS - Reading all over the world
“ Children who read most frequently for fun were also those
with the highest score on PIRLS”
• PISA 2000 - Reading for change
“Being more enthusiastic about reading and a frequent
reader was more of an advantage, on its own, than having
well-educated parents in good jobs.”
• Research shows that reading for enjoyment is “more
important for children’s educational success than their
family’s socio-economic status”
(OECD, 2002)
Progression in International Reading and Literacy
Programme for International Student Assessment
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
26. Creating a Reading Culture
• School inspectors in 2006 highlighted the fact
that a fifth of 11 year olds could not read
properly- 150,000 children. These students are at
a disadvantage in accessing the curriculum
• Although “Reading for Change” placed young
people in UK seventh out of 33 countries
surveyed in terms of functional literacy skills
there was a decline in attitudes to reading as
children get older and a long record of
underachievement for those with reading
difficulties
27. Health Educational
Costs costs: special
Costs
needs support
of
crime
Very Poor
Educational
Literacy
Cost of costs:
unemployment behaviour,
and low wages exclusion,
truancy
28. Creating a Reading Culture:
How do you go about it?
• Reading Challenges, trails or journeys
• Carnegie Shadowing and other Book
Awards
• Book Boxes, reading mornings, review
magazines, book sales, assemblies, rewards
• Bookweeks –Big Reads, World Book Day,
and other national events
• Reading Clubs/Groups – staff and students,
reading Buddies
29. Reading Challenges
• Portslade Community College Library KS3
Reading Challenge
• Our Lady's High School Reading Trail
• St Martin in the Fields High School “Hooked on
Books”
• Library Lines
• B and D Publishing www.banddpublishing.co.uk
30.
31.
32. Each line
You will also need to use the Library Lines map represents a genre
which looks like this: (E.g. Horror,
humour, etc)
To complete your
journey
successfully you
must select, read
and review a book
from each line.
Your journey is
complete when you
have collected six
stamps in your
Travel Card.
33. Bookweeks
•Sell books
•Authors, poets,
storytellers
•Competitions
•High profile event
across the school
•Big Read
•posters
35. Other national events
• Roald Dahl Day
• National Poetry Day
• Black History Month
• National Childrens’
Bookweek
• Swap a Book Day
• World Book Day
36. Reading Clubs/Groups
•Joint staff and 6th
Form group
•Carnegie
•G and T
•Reading Buddies
www.readingclub.org.uk
www.readinggroups.co.uk
37. • Inside this Issue:
• Book Reviews
• Meet the Author
• New Books
• Word Search
• Competitions
• Staff Interview
City of London Academy Library Magazine • Most Popular Authors
Issue 1. Christmas 2006 • Vital Statistics
Designed by: Ms Webster • Keenest Readers
Editor: Ms Taylor
TOP READINGTUTOR GROUPS
7D – 236 Books 9A – 149 Books
7A – 226 Books 9H – 99 Books
7E – 226 Books 9C – 98 books
Place: COLA Atrium 8E – 99 Books 10F – 60 Books
Date: Wednesday 13th December 8C – 89 Books 10C – 55 Books
Time: 4pm till 7pm 8D – 75 Books 10A – 40 Books
Our School is having a Book Fair and we’d
love you to come! A Book Fair is a great way
for you to buy the latest titles and with over
200 books on display and prices starting at just
£2.99 there’s something for everyone.
What’s more, with every £1 you spend at the
Fair, our school will receive up to 60p back to
spend on books.
Enter competition to win a PSP. See Book
Award
Fair brochure for details.
Winning
Author £7.99
Have you
seen the film
or read the
book?
These titles are all only £5.99 each
38. Book Awards
• Carnegie/Greenaway: www.ckg.org.uk
• Red House
www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk
• Bookheads www.bookheads.org.uk
• Smarties/Guardian/Whitbread
• Blue Peter
• Local www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk
39.
40. WHY?
• Lack of information about Year 6 reading
experiences
• Evidence of students’ academic regression by
end of Year 7
• Build relationships between key partners
• Empower students
• Encourage reading for pleasure
42. The
Project
•Copies of books available in every
participating school for nominated groups
to borrow, read, discuss and review
•Pupils post reviews, comments and votes
on website
www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk
•All pupils and teachers meet to celebrate
the winning book.
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaOm
rEoWFM
43. The success of the project
• The enthusiasm of librarians, teachers and
pupils
• Nearly 1,000 pupils involved
• Nearly 1,000 reviews posted on the website
• Over a third of our Year 7 intake involved
44. Teachers’ comments
“I thought it was perfect! What a fantastic way to end
year 6”
“Pupils’ reading speed increased with the children
trying to outdoing each other”
“It opened my eyes to the benefits of online blogging
and the blog motivated them to read more”
“I got to read some interesting books and got to know
the librarian and teachers at Bacons. We are really
interested in doing some teacher exchange visits for
next year”
45. “ It was great to meet the primary teachers and
discuss the children’s reading. They wanted to know
about our Year 7 curriculum and I learnt a lot about
Year 6 teaching.”
“ It was wonderful. All the children were motivated to
read more. We would like to explore video
conferencing for next year.”
46. We would like to develop…
• teacher exchanges so that year 6 and 7 teachers
share their curriculum
• video conferencing so that more schools can be
involved and more contact can be made between
teachers and pupils
• the role of the year 7 pupils in presenting the
shortlist to the primary schools through
presentations
• Cross- curricular links with Art and Drama depts.
• www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk
47. Strategies:
Links with others: Primary Schools
• Transition starts before the end of Year 6
• Postcards project and visits to feeder
primaries by librarian and students.
• Visits, Reading Groups (Torchlight,
Greenaway), reading buddies etc
• Summer Reading –The Reading Challenge and
Reading lists
• Southwark Schools’ Book Award
48. Accelerated Reader
• “Gets students motivated about books”
• “Reading for fun”
• “improves students’ critical-thinking and
comprehension skills”
• “guides students to appropriate books”
• www.renlearn.co.uk
49. Accelerated Reader
• Renaissance Learning promises to raise pupils’ reading scores by
2 years within 12 months.
• Star Reader test. ZPDs. Multiple choice on-line quizzes for which
students receive points and a percentage score. Detailed
diagnostic reports allow staff to identify which students need
extra help, are reading at the wrong level etc. Books allocated
levels from 1-12.
• Introduced to all specialist secondary schools and academies in
England. Already used in 67,000 schools worldwide
• £10 per pupil
50. A diagnostic report looks like this.
NB no code means good progress – shower your pupils with praise!
51. May 2008
Wow! Students in 7B have earned 655
points!
Year 7 Star Reader Points Earned
700 655
600
Number of Points
500
374.4
400
303.3
300
166.9 176.2
200 139.3
82.2
100 33.1
0
7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F 7G 7H
Tutor Group
52. May 2008
Students in 7B have passed over 100
quizzes. Well done!
Year 7 Star Reader Quizzes Passed
Number of Quizzes Passed
120 106
100 94
83
76
80
60
39 37 36 36
40
20
0
7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F 7G 7H
Tutor Group
53. Advantages?
• Fiction and non-fiction texts - wide range 8,000 titles
• Networkable so accessible throughout the school
• May tie in with Library Management system
• Helps guide and motivate students to find books they will
enjoy. Kids enjoy quizzes and computers.
• Levels now match NC levels
• You can write your own quizzes – or get students to do this
• Adds to a school’s Reading Culture? Encourages allocated time
for reading in the school curriculum. Raises profile of the
library.
54. Disadvantages?
• Lacking in quizzes for lower secondary years. Delay in writing quizzes for
new books. More aimed at primaries
• Expensive as a package and in resources
• Need full involvement of English dept, tutors and Learning Support
• Labels the kids
• Some of the AR Book levels are questionable. Seems to be a purely
mechanical assessment of each book based on words per line/per page
rather than content/concepts
• Points allocated for different length/level of books seem unfair
• Short term rewards. Does it really motivate students? Is it just a tick-box
exercise which appeals to teachers/educationalists dominated by
assessment/levels etc
55. Issues to consider
•Time and cost setting up the scheme. Who will pay for it?
•Introduce in a small way or launch across the whole school?
•How many quizzes?
•Need to relaunch each year with new students and new
staff?
•Launch via English dept or tutor system?
•Does it improve long term reading and critical literacy
abilities?
•Might the money be better spent elsewhere?
57. STRATEGIES:
INFORMATION LITERACY
Information literacy is the ability to know when there is a need for
information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use
that information for the task in hand.
National Forum on Information Literacy, USA 2005
The school library offers learning services, book and resources that
enable all members of the school community to become critical
thinkers and effective users of information in all formats and media.
IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto
58. INFORMATION LITERACY
The school library can:
• provide an environment suitable for group and independent
research;
• provide a wide range of resources with opportunities
to browse and discover;
• stimulate and support independent learning.
• take a lead role in teaching information literacy across the
curriculum;
• collaborate with teaching colleagues to embed information
literacy across the curriculum;
• provide targeted teaching for pupils and INSET for staff
School libraries – Making a difference
(DfES/www.schoollibrariesadvocacy.org.uk, 2004)
59. INFORMATION LITERACY
Librarians can:
•Plan and run induction sessions- Yr 7, 10, 12
•Work with teaching staff to help students improve research
skills
•Planning research tasks in collaboration with teachers
•Produce website and resource lists to support teaching
•Work with individual pupils
•Encourage students to evaluate sources
•Lead lessons on plagiarism, referencing, bibliographies, citation
methods for staff and students
60. So how do you make the library
dynamic and at the heart of your
Academy?
• Work with others and enlist their support
• Support from SMT.
• Ensure the library appears in key school documents SEF, SIP
etc
• Money- look for funding
• Seize all opportunities and don’t get left out of the loop.
Become an expert and indisposable.
• Use teachers’ techniques - whole school assemblies,
presentations
• Have a lot of energy and commitment! And a self belief!
