This will be my last blog for the year. 2012 has been a good year for completing
things. The first and most important
thing to have completed was my Master of Education, Teacher Librarianship, a
course I started in July, 2011. I can’t
believe has taken me 18 months to complete.
It was tough at the time, but in retrospect, I learned so
much and am happy to say achieved my ultimate goal of a change of career into
Teacher Librarianship. At my recent
graduation ceremony at Charles Sturt University at Wagga Wagga campus, I was
proud to say that I had secured a new position in my newly chosen field as a TL
at Brighton Grammar School.
The challenges await me at this school will be many, but
some I anticipate are coping with full-time work in a library, dealing with
boys only after working in co-educational settings for over ten years, and all
the new information I will need to acquire as I come to understand the workings
of a new educational environment.
I have started to read books that I believe young adult boys
would be reading, and to understand the new National curriculum and its
assessment system. In my new role as a
TL in a senior boys’ school library, I hope that I will use all the knowledge
and skills I have acquired over the last eighteen months, as I learn many, many
more and keep up to date with new technologies and methodologies in a stimulating
educational atmosphere.
