Standard: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-plan, Teach and Assess Learning.
Theme: Engaging with Inquiry Approaches
Growth Phase: Leading
Growth Indicator: Learning experiences are co-designed and planned with students to empower real-world and relevant learning experiences.
A school librarian specialist, Waterloo District, Ontario, writes about creation rather than consumption in the learning commons.
Brooks Kirkland, Anita. (2012). Creativity in the learning commons. By the Brooks.
http://www.bythebrooks.ca/creativity-in-the-learning-commons/
Enjoy and learn from this teacher-librarian reflection on learning commons practice focused on developing student inquiry skills and processes iteratively. Includes an adept model using a swimming pool analogy for explaining and designing student inquiry co-practice with teachers.
Lyon, B. (2019, February 11). Playing the Long Game: Teaching from an Inquiry Stance [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://thelibrariansjourney.blogspot.com/2019/02/playing-long-game-teaching-from-inquiry.html