Reflective Practice

LDT 1: Adopt a critical stance toward my work, promoting effective practice and responsible use of technology

• Build on previous experiences and existing literature as I critically reflect on my own practices
• Promote digital citizenship and responsible use of technology
• Demonstrate fully engaged human presence
• Equity, access, and social justice – help all learners succeed, especially those historically marginalized or lacking access
• Cultivate awareness of emerging trends and conditions in the field, to accurately weigh costs and benefits, forecast futures, and manage risk
• Ethical practice – maintain the highest professionalism in work and learning settings (including ILT values).

Reflection is such an important piece of any occupation; it gives us opportunities to learn from and grow our crafts. For this competency, I selected my Book Reviews and Article Blogs from SCHL 5200: Promoting Literacy through Libraries, and my Design Thinking project from SCHL 5030: Information Literacy. I continue to use book reviews with my upper elementary students. When we shifted to 15-17 day rotations with single cohorts, I had to come up with something tangible for students to do with their books. I remembered my book review assignments and shaped an elementary lesson for my upper grades (3-5) to use. Students now come into the library, check out a physical book and an electronic book in SORA, then write a Book Review that we post to their classroom LMS (Schoology or Google Classroom). My 3rd graders use Flipgrid to record their book reviews and my 4th and 5th-grade students use BookCreator to write their reviews.  

The Design Thinking project is one I continue to use with my Media class. These are 7th and 8th-grade students who do not have access to our MakerSpace space and this lesson is a great opportunity to get them thinking about how the news impacts how we think and behave as a society. Since developing this lesson, I have added elements from Checkology and Code.org to help students see how much we are influenced by the final products we see on screens everywhere.

I am also including my project on Culturally Responsive Libraries from SCHL 5100: School Libraries in the Digital Age because it shows the progression from our opening day and the flexibility to grow in the future. This project reminds me that I have more work to do to make our library truly inclusive and equitable for all our stakeholders. Like our furniture, we have room to move and grow. 

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