Hi Debbie,
My PLC meets twice every 6-day cycle (we're on an A-F day cycle). I am flex scheduled, and most PLCs meet at a different time from mine. I made it one of my personal professional goals (as in not the goal on my evaluation but something I wanted to accomplish this year) to meet with each department and talk to them about what the library can do to support their discipline, and PLC turned out to be the best means of accomplishing this. I just explained to each department head what I wanted to do and asked for a good time to visit, and no one's turned me down yet! I do go over library resources in general but the bulk of each presentation is specific to the classes/units I know are being taught in each department. This makes it more effective than presenting library resources to the entire faculty because we spend the whole time we have together covering directly relevant materials/services. After my presentation I share links and directions to all the resources I went over using Google Drive so that teachers have it to review whenever they want.

-Sarah Briggs

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock@gmail.com> wrote:

Are you in a PLC too? 

How is the decision made about who you’re presenting to?

When you say you differentiate, what does that look like?

 

From: Sarah Briggs [mailto:sjg.librarian@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:16 AM
To: Debbie Abilock <dabilock@gmail.com>
Cc: casl-l <casl-l@mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] PD with your teachers?

 

Hi Debbie,

This year I've started presenting to PLCs (you could also do departments if PLCs work differently at your school) on library resources and services specific to each discipline. I've presented to the entire faculty before, but just as with students, I've found that working with smaller groups with materials created specifically for them is more effective. This has already lead to increased feedback from the staff and several new collaborations.

 

Sarah Briggs

Library/Media Specialist

Jonathan Law High School

20 Lansdale Avenue

Milford, CT 06460

 

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi CASL-members,

 

I’m working on a piece about school librarians who are doing PD with your own faculty and looking for examples…

If you think this is of interest to the list, please reply to everyone with a blurb about what you’re doing.  If you’d just like to put out a feeler to me, please do!

 

best,

debbie

 

Debbie Abilock

NoodleTools/NoodleTeach

Smart tools, smart research, smart teaching

 

Abilock, Debbie, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Violet H. Harada, eds. Growing  Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited-ABC CLIO, 2012.

SLC Column “Friction”

 

 

 

  


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