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                           Supporting My own Personal Learning, Development, and Network   There are many different ways that I can continue to develop my skills as an educator. Virtually, all of these ways of learning are dependent upon forming and maintaining connections with a community of fellow learners. Firstly, I meet regularly with other teacher librarians in my district in both large and small groups. For our last Pro D day, 20 of us or so met and shared two resources each that we enjoyed using in our libraries with students. One of the resources, based on the picture book "Snowflake Bentley", allows students to create their own snowflakes online. It is a moment of wonder for students. The website for this is https://dangries.com/rectangleworld/PaperSnowflake/ I also have the good fortune to have several teacher librarian mentors. Being able to visit their library set ups has been so incredibly...

                                                       Creating a Student Centred Reading Culture    As an elementary teacher librarian, I have the privilege of working with students from Kindergarten to Grade Seven. While every Kindergarten student is excited to take out books, this is not always the case for all Grade Seven students. There are many reasons for this, but a key factor, I believe, is self concept. Students have internalized that they are not good readers because they have been forced to read books that were boring for them or that were simply too hard for them.  My goal as a teacher librarian is to put the exact right book in a student's hands at the right moment. During book sign out time, this means listening to, and learning about, each student as an individual so that I can help them choose...

Part C Research Synopsis   The research literature on Peer Teaching has deepened and extended my understanding of its  benefits on student learning in many ways. Firstly, the learning of peers who teach their peers is strengthened because they are applying what they are learning in a social context involving speaking  listening, and movement between groups of learners ("The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of  Reciprocal Teaching Strategies on Comprehension of Expository Texts"). Peer teachers are also  highly motivated to learn because they have the meaningful purpose of helping their peers ("How to  Prepare Students to Learn by Teaching"). Thirdly,  the fact that peer teachers will be recalling the  information they have learned multiple times in order to help teach the other students is another  benefit ("The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching Strategies on Comprehension of Expository Texts"). Finally, the peer teachers ...