Last night I had the undivided attention of a small but appreciative group of parents who had come along to the monthly PTA meeting to listen to me talk about how our school libraries support their children’s learning and ways they, as parents could be doing that at home.
Reading, Research and Recreation: the three R’s of the School Library
In this presentation I introduced parents to the school-wide information literacy programme that I have developed to date and described how it fits across year levels and curriculum areas.
To support parents in their endeavours to help their children with homework and enthuse them to read (or keep reading) I also created a Parent Resource Livebinder with some good links in it for author websites, book reviews, book trailers, research help and online safety.
I had several parents stay behind after the presentation to discuss various things that had occurred to them during my talk as well as to talk about their favourite books and how some of the strategies I mentioned had already worked for them or how they intended to try this or that one out.
There was definite interest in sessions for parents to up-skill in their use of the internet and searching strategies so I am adding that to my goals for the 2013 school year.
We have also invited parents to become members of our library for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how many take up that offer and how that aspect of community involvement develops.
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Hi Senga, this is really inspirational. I have a presentation to our PTA next Tuesday night to ask for funding for a couple of things so your post is terrifically timely. An aspirational benchmark. Well done!
Steph
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Thanks for the feedback Steph! I hope your PTA get right in behind you with your funding application. Let your passion shine through and you’re bound to win them over 🙂
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Awesome as always – really great slide show and I can hear your voice enthusing and inspiring your audience.
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It’s a great LiveBinder Senga! Lucky Hargest parents! We have just invited our parents to borrow also.
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Thanks Johanne. Livebinders makes it so easy to share great sites 🙂
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