CONT798: Teacher Librarian Part 2

Course Schedule

Course Description

Now that you've been introduced to the world of teacher-librarianship, continue your discovery, like the lifelong learners you serve! In this course, people are the focus, from the self to the students to the various stakeholders who can impact the School Library Learning Commons (SLLC). You'll explore collaboration and relationship-building with students, administrators, staff, parents/guardians, community organizations and vendors. You'll dive into a deeper examination of varied learning environments, specific collection development concerns, and programming choices. Course work will be practical, rewarding and infused with equity principles. The course culminating task is a portfolio of resources, tools, plans and contacts for professional growth, budgeting and library management materials, lesson and inquiry plans, research, photos, videos and other artifacts you've created and collected throughout the course that illustrate the importance of collaboration in the SLLC

In this course, you'll have the opportunity to 

• practice and defend the various roles and responsibilities associated with school librarianship, including collection management, recreational reading and literacy development
• apply the foundational documents associated with teacher-librarianship in specific contexts 
• develop relationships between different stakeholders with the goal of improving collections, spaces and practices through an anti-bias lens
• refine lesson and unit program design and delivery
• incorporate innovative technology, diverse texts and inquiry models
• improve your repertoire of collaboration tools and techniques
• change preconceived notions of readers, libraries and learning that may result from unconscious biases

Application Requirements

1) OCT Membership showing completion of Part 1

2) CONFIRMATION OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE FORM Signed by a Supervisory Official* from your Board confirming that you have one year (194 days) of teaching experience since becoming a certified teacher.

*The Ontario College of Teachers defines "Supervisory Official" as the Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent of the school board for a teacher employed by a Board of Education. A principal or headmaster is not recognized in this capacity.

For a teacher employed by a private school, the "supervisory official" is the Ministry of Education official (Education Officer) appointed to your school. For overseas experience the appropriate Supervisory Official is the person your Principal reports to.

*Please note that if you have an existing Part 2, Part 3 (Specialist), or Honour Specialist qualification on your OCT record you are not required to submit a form for a Part 2 course. A new form is always required for Part 3 (Specialist).

Course Materials

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Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

If you drop a course:

1. by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
2. after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.