Todays walk

Today I had coffee and a walk with my old friend and my now mentor, Lyn. We discussed how years ago she had managed to whittle the RFF that she had been doing from All Stages down to just Early Stage One and stage One. The rest of the library time was available for flexible scheduling and the best and most effective teaching that she did had been done during this time. She had worked on one teacher at a time to instill in them the positive benefits of collaborative resource based teaching and word spread rapidly with teachers lining up to have their classes booked in to the library for some team teaching and Resource Based Learning. Unfortunately for her a new principal came along who didnt believe in flexible scheduling or who had a tight budget and she replaced the flexible library time with the RFF that exists today. This is so common with the local schools around here and a new paradigm needs to be brought in to change this. i feel that this course is equipping me with the courage and information to help bring this about. We laughed at how easy I thought the job was when I first started and at her remark that it was a Pandora's box. I sent her an sms a few weeks later that said "The Pandora's box has just been opened. I am still rummaging around the Pandora's box and there is not a bottom to it as far as I can see, but I feel that I am becoming more knowledgeable and better and better equipped to deal with and cater for a busy school library and the creation of an information literate school community. Oh and by the way great news i got 29.5 in my first assignment . I'm not dumb after all. In fact I made it to the top 30% in the course. Well done me !