Term 2 Professional Development Day 2009
Our next professional development day will be held on Wednesday 10th June at Dapto High School, Cleveland Rd, Dapto.
Teacher Librarian Program and Presenters
Joy Lawn: Joy is an inspirational speaker with an in-depth knowledge of children’s and young adult literature. She has an MA in Children’s Literature & Literacy and has been a specialist children’s literature consultant for more than a decade. This year Joy has a new role as the Queensland judge for the CBC. Joy will present an overview and teaching ideas for all of this year’s shortlisted titles. Joy’s book, “Inside the shortlist” will not be available through ISLA this year, it is available through the Queensland branch of the CBC at: qld.cbca.org.au
Ralph Pirozzo: Ralph Pirozzo believes schools need to create engaging and challenging thinking classrooms so that children’s learning will flourish. He believes that the teacher librarian’s role in this process is vital and will show us how to develop planning matrices for COGS and other units of work. These matrices combine Bloom’s Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory to provide planning tools that cater for all learning styles and abilities. Much of his work reinforces the Quality Teaching model and Gifted and Talented education. He will provide us with a number of graphic organisers and samples of units that have already been created. Bring along a thumb drive if you would like a digital copy.
Sharing Session
In addition there will be a sharing session for both Primary and Secondary teacher-librarians. Primary people are asked to bring along details of useful websites or links for research activities as well as ideas for promoting literature in your school.
Library Assistants Program and Presenters
Joy Lattin – Life member of SASSPA
PSA representative to talk about working conditions – bring along any questions you would like to ask.
Linda Croft – Dapto HS Library Assistant – Sharing session on the topic of Stocktake. Be ready to share your stocktake stories – the successes as well as the nightmares!!!
Term 2 Professional Development Day 2009 Flyer (Word version)
Term 2 Professional Development day 2009 Flyer (PDF version)
Term 2 Professional development day 2009 Registration form (Word version)
Term 2 Professional development day 2009 Registration form (PDF version)
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2009 Membership and Calendar
ISLA provides Networking and Professional Development opportunities as well as general support and social networking opportunities for Teacher Librarians, Library Technicians and Library Assistants in the Illawarra Region.
We have been able to offer the quality and diversity of speakers at our Professional Development Days, due to our broad membership base. We therefore encourage you to become a financial member of the Association.
The membership fees will be $25 for the year. If you pay before the 1st May 2009 the fee will only be $20. (Membership of a Professional Association is tax deductible.) Applications after the 1st May will revert to the full cost of $25.
Membership Application Form 2009 (Word version)
Membership Application form 2009 (PDF version)
2009 Calendar
All dates and events are listed in our ISLA calendar in the sidebar of this page
Term 1:
Wednesday 1st April: 6.30pm. Dinner at Samaras in Wollongong (opposite the Harp Hotel).
Term 2:
Thursday, 21st / Friday, 22nd May: Catholic Primary Teacher Librarian Conference – Bowral
Week 6 or 7: ISLA Professional Development Day at Dapto High School – date to be confirmed
Friday, 5th June: Joint DET/ASLA Conference in Armidale.
Thursday, 2nd July: Networking afternoon tea – 4pm Wollongong PS Library to be followed by casual dinner.
July: Shoalhaven Teacher Librarians will be hosting a Professional Development Day for teacher librarians and their Principals run by James Henri. Date to be confirmed.
Term 3:
Wednesday, 23rd September: ISLA Networking afternoon tea – 4pm at Wollongong PS Library to be followed by casual dinner.
Term 4:
Week 4 : ISLA Professional Development Day: date and venue to be advised.
Wednesday, 18th November. Illawarra CBC Christmas Dinner.
Wednesday, 25th November : ISLA Christmas Dinner
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ISLA AGM 2009
The ISLA Annual General Meeting will be held at Bellambi Public School, Owen Park Road, Bellambi (Phone 4284 8666) on Wednesday, 4th March, 2009 from 4.00-5.00pm.
All positions will be declared vacant and elections will be held for a new committee for 2009. A new committee will also need to be formed to plan our Professional Development Days for the year. If you have any suggestions for topics for the days please bring them along to the meeting.
Agenda Items for discussion
Review of 2008
Social and professional activities for the year
General Business
If you are unable to attend the meeting, but would like to have a say in any of these matters or nominate yourself for a position, then contact me before the meeting by phone or email.
Margaret Cooper
President ISLA 2008
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Illawarra-South Coast Children’s Book Council Christmas dinner
Bookings are now being taken for the Illawarra-South Coast Children’s Book Council of Australia Christmas Dinner with Guest speaker Mark Macleod, former national CBCA President, children’s book publisher, editor, industry lobbyist, TV personality, book reviewer and author with a great knowledge of children’s books.
Bookings close 19 November.
When: 7pm Wednesday 3 December, 2008
Where: Villa D’Oro Function Centre, 39-41 Flinders Street, Wollongong
Cost: $40 per person for two course meal plus tea and coffee. Cash bar.
Tickets: Please send a cheque payable to Illawarra-South Coast CBCA to Sandi Wooton, Treasurer. Also include your email address, please. Receipts can be picked up on the night
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Photos of the October PD Day at Shellharbour P.S.
Congratulations to the ISLA Executive on another fantastic professional development Day.
Please see the post below for links to sites related to our guest speakers.
Many Illawarra teacher librarians are now busy planning and creating wikis thanks to the inspirational Ian McLean.
Our Pink Ribbon Day raffle raised $220. Great work everyone.
Photos of the day are available on the PD page
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October 2008 Professional Development Day
Our next professional development day will be held on Thursday 30th October 2008 at Shellharbour Public School, Mary St, Shellharbour. There will be stands for both primary and secondary teacher librarians and library assistants.
The Presenters
Ian McLean is currently the teacher librarian at Penrith PS. Not only was he a former editor of SCAN, but he has also written articles for the journal. He has been a regular book rapper, participating in and developing several raps. He spoke at the ASLA conference earlier this year about his experiences setting up blogs and wikis for the children at his school. Visit these sites for more information:
http://ianmclean.edublogs.org
http://goldquest.edublogs.org/pps-bushranger-bounties/
http://penrithpslibrary.pbwiki.com/
Paul Macdonald is the current owner of the well known Children’s Bookshop, in Beecroft. He has a Master of Education, working almost 20 years as a teacher of Upper Primary and Secondary. He has won numerous awards in teaching such as a Quality Teacher Award in 2002, The Premier’s English Scholarship in 2004 and awards for his co-ordination of Regional Shakespearean Festivals. His interests include the development of literacy with a particular interest in reading for gifted children and boys’ literacy and books for adolescents.
http://www.thechildrensbookshop.com.au/about_us.html
Julie Vivas
One of Australia’s foremost illustrators, Julie Vivas’s work for the world renowned Possum Magic (written by Mem Fox) began a career as a children’s illustrator that has since seen the creation of some very important picture books. Her very distinctive watercolour style is seen in such well-known books as Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partidge, The Nativity, Let the Celebrations Begin, Let’s Eat and Hello Baby.
More information on Julie can be found at
http://www.laterallearning.com/authors/vivas.html
For more information and to download the registration form click on the link below
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Professional Development Day June 2008
Another successful professional development day was held at Dapto High School today.
Sessions were provided for primary and secondary teacher librarians as well as library assistants. Guest speakers included Kate Colley, Therese Coogan, Michelle Macdonald and author James Roy.
Photos from the day are available on the PD page.
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Registration for Professional Development Day May 2008
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2008
The 2008 membership details are now available on our Membership page.
One of the benefits of joining ISLA is that there will be other, smaller meetings and get-togethers for ISLA members during the year.
At our first meeting of the year, we drew up a calendar for the year. We made a decision to include informal networking opportunities by scheduling a meeting once a term. There will be no formal agenda for these meetings. We feel that there is still a great need for teacher librarians and library assistants to share experiences over a cuppa.
Following is a list of activities planned for the year. Please note the following dates in your diary:
Term 1:
Tuesday, 8th April: 6.30pm. Dinner at Top Choice in Wollongong (Corner of Market and Corrimal Streets).
Term 2:
Wednesday, 21st May: Networking afternoon tea. 4pm at Wollongong Public School library.
Wednesday, 11th June: Professional Development Day at Dapto High School.
Term 3:
Thursday, 7th August. Networking afternoon tea. 4pm at Wollongong Public School library. Great chance to discuss and share any Book Week ideas.
Term 4:
Professional Development Day: date and venue to be advised.
Wednesday, 5th November. Networking afternoon tea. 4pm at Wollongong Public School library.
Office Bearers 2008
President: Margaret Cooper
Vice President: Jane Pretty
Minutes Secretary: Fiona McKay
Correspondence Secretary: Jenny Kay
Treasurer: Celia Owen
Primary Rep:
Secondary Rep: Di Ridley
Non-Government Schools Rep: Trish Atkinson
Web Master: Wendy Dawson
Presidents Report 2007
ISLA has had a very successful year in 2007. It has now been three years since we started organising Professional Development Days for teacher librarians and their school assistants. It is evident that we have established a reputation for providing relevant, needs-based, practical information to assist teacher librarians to improve their teaching and management practices in Illawarra schools as attendance figures have risen this year.
Our first Professional Development Day for the year was held on the 19th June at Fairy Meadow Demonstration School. A very comprehensive program was offered which included Victoria Clay speaking about engaging boys in the library; Joy Lawn with her excellent ideas for using the Shortlisted books for Bookweek; June Wall who presented her “All my own work” workshop to Secondary teacher librarians and two local presenters in Brendan Barr and Sharon McGuiness who showed us many interesting web sites to use with students. To conclude the day, Debora Abela proved to be a very entertaining and energetic author. A total of 116 people attended the day.
In addition we organised an after school information session at Keiraville PS with Doug Jenkins to explain the changes that we would see when Thin Client was installed on computers in Government schools. The large turnout indicated that we were providing vital information to our teacher librarians to help them prepare for the changeover to Thin Client.
Our second Professional Development Day was held on 23rd October at Shellharbour Public School. This was the first time that Library Assistants were invited to attend the whole day. There were some practical workshops at the start of the day, in which Primary and Secondary teacher librarians were able to share their teaching and management tips followed by two sessions presented by Kevin Hennah. Kevin’s ideas for transforming the physical aspects of the library to make it more appealing to library users was a big hit, with many of us going back to our schools and making changes to improve our libraries to better meet the needs of our students and teachers. The day concluded with local author, Bill Condon giving us some samples of his work and a taste of his dry sense of humour.
The feedback, together with an attendance figure of 124, proves that we are providing the right sort of assistance and networking opportunities that teacher librarians require. These days would not be possible without the dedication, support and efforts of our ISLA executive and planning committee.
We also made small changes to our constitution to update it and make it more relevant to current needs. We changed the name from Illawarra School Librarians Association to the Illawarra School Libraries Association, as a way of catering for a broader membership base to include library assistants and others who are interested in school librarianship. Our current membership numbers 53.
An important achievement for the year was the launch of our own professional website -www.isla.org – thanks to Wendy Dawson. Establishing our own website gives us more opportunities to provide a worthwhile service to our members.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of being President in 2007. I think ISLA is in a very healthy state thanks to the teacher librarians who have selflessly given their own precious time to contribute to our organisation this year.
Margaret Cooper
President 2007
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ISLA Annual General Meeting 2008
The ISLA Annual General Meeting will be held at Bellambi Public School, Owen Park Road, Bellambi (Phone 4284 8666) on Thursday, 21st February, 2008 at 4.00pm.
All positions will be declared vacant and elections will be held for a new committee for 2008. A new committee will need to be formed to plan our Professional Development Days for the year. If you have any suggestions for topics for the days please bring them along to the meeting.
Agenda Items for discussion
Review of 2007
Social activities for the year
Applying for an ABN
General Business
If you are unable to attend the meeting, but would like to have a say in any of these matters or nominate yourself for a position, then contact me before the meeting by phone or email.
Margaret Cooper
President ISLA 2007
Add comment February 13, 2008
