Standard: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-plan, Teach and Assess Learning.
Theme: STEAM /Maker Pedagogies
Growth Phase: Established
Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarians co-design experiential projects with teachers and students to address real-life problems.
This issue of Ontario School Library Association (OSLA) journal The Teaching Librarian focuses on innovation in the SLLC. Includes articles on tinkering and making.
Whalley, K. (ed.) (2022). The Teaching Librarian 29(2). Retrieved from https://accessola.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-January-TingL-29-2.pdf
An Ontario elementary school LLC has a brand new “Fab Lab – the French term for makerspace and short for “Laboratoire de fabrication”. The teacher-librarian worked with the school and school council to build understanding and fund this “collaborative, hands-on learning space where students from all grades will be able to grow, learn and explore using critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and more!” The Fab Lab’s engaging website includes many photos, illustrated curricular connections, makerspace examples with “plenty of high-tech, low-tech and no-tech resources”, and also choice boards for use at home.
Aradj, L. (2023). Fab Lab. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/tdsb.on.ca/llpsllc/fab-lab