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I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
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Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model
Dr. Joseph Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model was one of the first 'specialty' topics I became really interested in after beginning my teaching career in the 1980s. As the teacher-librarian, I saw so many students who were intrigued by a particular topic, and who fit the criteria of the model, but who weren't identified by their classroom teachers as 'smart' - their teachers wanted me to work with the good little test-takers who were afraid of making a mistake when it came to the proper placemen
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Making Literary Maps
About a hundred years ago, when I was taking teacher training, the term ‘story map’ referred to pictorial maps students drew about stories they'd read; now this term denotes something quite different. So I’m using the term ‘literary maps’ to refer to the practice of carefully reading a novel’s text to determine details about the locations of important places in a story, and mapping them in such a way that the reader can ‘see’ the world in which their novel takes place. In the process, your stude
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Informational Text, Literature, Novel Studies
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Experience
I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
Teaching style
Enthusiastic! I was terribly shy as a child, died a thousand deaths when I had to get up for an oral presentation in front of my classmates. But as a teacher, I could get up and talk all the live long day, without notes, because teaching was (and still is) my passion, and kids are amazingly accepting, forgiving and encouraging - I drew energy from them! My curricular interests are inquiry, cross-curricular, project-based learning (PBL) and although I never taught STEM, I think it's an awesome vehicle for learning. You'll see that A LOT of my projects list 'critical thinking' as a keyword; that's because I believe that in these days in which we are living it IS critical for kids to develop this particular thinking skill.
Awards & shining teacher moments
nominated as Teacher of the Year (2012)
My own education history
I earned my B.Ed.,with an emphasis on social studies and language arts, from the University of Victoria (1978); subject courses for teacher-librarianship (1982, UVic) and earned my M.Ed. in teacher-librarianship from the University of British Columbia (1996).
Additional biographical information
My store's name comes from a nickname one of my fave gr. 10 students gave me, the one-and-only year I taught in a junior high school. I'm a third-generation Canadian on my dad's side, fourth-generation on my mum's; an avid and wide reader; a diehard cross-stitcher; and a lifelong learner. Visit my Pinterest page @ https://www.pinterest.ca/ConantheLibrarian/
If you need to contact me, please do so at lmlconsu@telus.net.
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