Topic 2 - The Role of the Teacher Librarian

Have just watched the Youtube video attached to Topic 2- The Role of the Teacher Librarian. Being Canadian Australian - lived in Canada for the first 32 of my 44 years before moving down under - I didn't mind the strong American accents. I found it really informative and helpful in looking at the many roles TL's fulfill. Teacher, instructional partner, information specialist and program leader are the four roles these Americans believe their Library Media Specialists are. This is week 6 of my TL role in the primary school where I am employed on Wednesday mornings for two infant classes. Teacher and instructional partner are two roles I feel comfortable with as I teach and work with these two classes. I feel a strong collaboration is happening between me and the two classroom teachers I am working with. I am supporting both of these teachers in their HSIE topics - families past and present. The activities I have completed with the students have been specialist information tasks but I'm not quite comfortable with putting that label on me just yet. Maybe by the end of this term? year? MEd in TL? certainly but not just yet. And program leader...geez that is going to take me a while to be comfortable with that role...I'm a work in progress and I can honestly say, I have not helped one student sign out a book yet!! Luckily, we have a terrific Librarian Technican or as they say in USA, clerical staff.