The primary purpose of a Teacher Librarian’s role will be –
- Aim to provide students with easy access to information and recreational resources.
- Provide services that allow students to develop skills in online researching, locating, evaluating, synthesizing, and using information.
- Supervise and manage the school library using Library Management System.
- Serve as teacher, materials expert, and curriculum adviser to ensure that the library is a part of the instructional programs of the school.
Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
C1 Academic Responsibilities
C1.1 Learning and teaching
- Collaborate with teachers and Head of Programme to enhance curriculum and provide resources for accomplishing curriculum requirements.
- Curate and provide digital and other resources that would support inquiry.
- Actively promote student information literacy across the curriculum.
- Maintain a collection of current qualified resources for teachers including online access to journals, exam material, etc.
- Help teachers to become independent users of the Learning Centre.
- Ensure maintenance of bibliographies of UOI and Learner Profile resources.
- Plan and conduct activities to promote reading amongst learners.
- Maintain records of the reading levels for each learner in the school.
- Collaborate with teachers in developing units of inquiry by acting as the resource specialist.
- To create a book list based on appropriate student literature and knowledge and arrange for procurement.
- To review books and ensure that all acquired books are age appropriate and in line with the school values.
- Ensure that the academic honesty policy is understood and practiced in school by all students through library academic honesty program.
- Plan and conduct online reading and comprehension assessments.
C 1.2 Assessment, recording and reporting
- Maintain reading assessment record for each student, provide these records to the teacher