So Much to Do, With So Very, Very Little Time.....and Resources....on a Minimal Budget...
90 minutes a week! Does that exhibit the importance of inspiring and creating lifelong 21st Century Learners? My personal opinion is a big fat, loud and proud, NO!!!! (Can you hear me yelling from the rooftop?!). Although I am happy to have the opportunity to be trained and hired as a teacher librarian I am not very happy when it comes to learning about the role of the teacher librarian and how much is expected with so little time allotted and minimal resources provided. Again, I will refer to teacher librarians as Superheroes! I am not being facetious or flippant when I say this, I am totally serious! With the responsibility and the task of providing a "variety of reference services... as part of their daily activities includes helping students define their information needs, creating learning environments for collaboration, teaching students to use the online catalog and databases, and helping students distinguish good information from bad" (Reidlin...