Knowledge+of+teaching+and+learning

=**  1.2    **** Knowledge about learning and teaching **=

=// Excellent Teacher librarians. . . //=

**//   1.2.1      //****//  Have a detailed knowledge of current education pedagogy //**   Throughout this Masters Learning Journey, it has become essential for me to revisit and sharpen my knowledge and understanding of current education pedagogies. I am grateful for this opportunity as it has made my current work with the mapping of the Essential Learnings, QCAR and the new National Curriculum much easier and I feel that I am speaking and contributing from an well informed point of reference. **// 1.2.2 //**//  ** Are thoroughly familiar with the information literacy and information needs, skills and interest of learners **// Discussed in 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 **//   1.2.3     //****//  Fully understand the need to cater for the social, cultural and developmental backgrounds of learners in program implementation and curriculum resourcing  //** It is essential that the library caters for all students regardless of their social cultural and developmental backgrounds. Libraries tend to be a sanctuary for many of our students. Autistic children feel safe and secure, international students consider it a home away from home - somewhere they can access the internet providing them with vital communication to home; the gifted and talented know that the library is their first port of call when they are accessing or searching their latest weird and wonderful quest; readers find a constant stream of quality literature and students of all abilities and backgrounds know that the library is the place where they can photocopy, print and bind their assignments as well as accessing staff that can help with fixing files that are corrupted, mending faulty flash discs, making powerpoints work, and merging music files that they need for the first period that day! The Library is the hub of the school, a place where students from Yr 1 to Yr 12 meet and socialise and help one another. Library staff make a point of welcoming students, helping them with assignments and research and follow up with genuine concern as to their academic progress. By knowing students well, teacher libraries can guide students to resources that are pitched at their level, ensure that their fiction needs are catered for and can suggest further reading.