The last post of this week is on Library as a safe space in schools.
As you know, this week I’m taking a look into the connection between GID and Colorado Department of Education’s rubric for highly effective librarians.
STANDARD 4 : Environment
A. Safe and Inclusive Environment – safe, respectful & inclusive learning environment for all students
Guided Inquiry Design helps librarians to foster a caring relationship with students in the learning context. Through the third space Librarians and teachers look for places where students are connecting their experiences outside school to the content of the course.
The structure of the Inquiry Tools gives students regular practice with working on engaging in respectful and open dialogue about ideas and content with other students and the librarian and teacher. Through regular practice habit take hold and students learn what respect looks and feels like in the GID context, at school and in the library.
B. Welcoming Safe Space– open, warm welcoming, and flexibly designed to meet a wide variety of needs
The library space is created to teach at point of need. GID workshops and institutes help foster an awareness of the importance of student interest in learning. We also address using the inquiry Tools as formative assessments so that librarians and collaborating teachers have the data they need to make on the spot decisions about student learning, enabling them to teach effectively at the point of need. For more see these posts on our blog from 2016
I’m not a teacher, I’m an Awakener!
C. Current and Responsive Space – diverse, equitable, current
because GID embeds technology into the course and content- the learning through the model provides that platform for current tech use to engage, act, and create. Collaboration is at the core of the planning, design and instruction of GID and requires student collaboration in a positive learning environment.
Guided Inquiry is a huge support to librarian and teacher effectiveness TOGETHER!
Even though I made explicit connections to the Colorado standards, I hope that this connects to your own district and school’s view of effective libraries and teaching and that this weeks posts have been a useful bridge to those documents that live in your professional life.
Comments welcome- as always!
Leslie Maniotes, PhD
Co-creator of GID
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