The new curriculum reflects an increasing expectation for all teachers to access a growing range of education resources digitally. Teacher librarians offer a bridge into the digital world for many teachers, in assisting them to access the Australian Curriculum and online resources integral to its delivery. This may include the provision of web links to online archives of primary sources in History, accessing information and data for analysis in Mathematics, the creation of multimodal texts in Science or the location of interactive texts in English.
One of the innovative features of the Australian Curriculum is the embedding of general capabilities in learning area content. Teacher librarians are in a strong position to support class and learning-area teachers in addressing the critical and creative thinking demands of learning-area content.
As a teacher librarian, I'm excited about the opportunities the new curriculum will bring. We are in a unique position within the school community and are often regarded as agents of change. I look forward to the conference and hope to glean as much as possible from the Teacher Librarian's point of view.
Australian Curriculum Studies Association Biennial Conference
