Librarians in Schools as Literacy Educators Advocates for Reaching Beyond the Classroom /

• Main Author: Merga, Margaret Kristin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literacy.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Learning.; Instruction.; Schools.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Learning & Instruction.; Schools and Schooling.

This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders. While librarians working in schools are generally perceived as peripheral to the educational experience, they can in fact provide significant support in encouraging children's literacy and literature learning....

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. School librarians are educators too
• Chapter 2. Do teacher librarians feel that their profession is valued?
• Chapter 3. Do schools with libraries use them?
• Chapter 4. 40 practices and strategies: What teacher librarians do to support children's literature and literacy learning
• Chapter 5. Competing demands and barriers
• Chapter 6. Collaboration with teachers
• Chapter 7. Supporting the nation's literary voice: Teacher librarians as advocates of national literature in schools
• Chapter 8. The future of teacher librarians and school libraries: some closing comments.