Jack, Gordon
National Center for
Literacy Education (NCLE). (2012, October). Working together is working
smarter. National Survey of Collaborative
Professional Learning Opportunities.
Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/researchandstatistics/NCLE_AASLinfographic_FINAL-download.pdf
Summary
This infographic
summarizes the data compiled from the National Center for Literacy Education
study of 2,404 educators nationally. The
data confirms that collaboration is a key component for teacher-librarians. While schools do not always make time for
collaboration, librarians are actively seeking professional networks at their
site and beyond. In this particular
study, librarians are participating in greater numbers than traditional
classroom teachers, with 51% reporting that they share ideas “at least weekly
in online networks and communities, compared with 23% of educators overall.”
Evaluation
This
data confirms that librarians are not isolated professionals, but engaged
collaborators both with teachers at their site and external learning communities. While most working librarians won’t see any
surprises here, this information shows others how connected librarians are and
how vital they are to school improvement.
This data should be shown to any person interested in becoming a
librarian as a snapshot of the type of work we do. 
Gordon,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this information. I will be sharing it with several principals in my district who think that librarians do nothing but check in and out books. They also do not believe that libraries are that important! I am glad I have a principal that supports the library.