tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post4836309728271415926..comments2024-03-13T08:18:08.922+10:30Comments on Catdownunder: The unemployment rate amongcatdownunderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189081688973141295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-15428739461689914352012-12-02T16:15:22.472+10:302012-12-02T16:15:22.472+10:30I agree Sue - and you need the support of ALL teac...I agree Sue - and you need the support of ALL teachers, not just some. I know teacher librarians who no longer do any library work, one of them no longer has a library at all - and another local school wants to use the library for another purpose next year. The books will be "stored" until they make a decision about what is to be done with them!<br />I was not suggesting that kids should only use paper and glue - just that some of them never use paper and glue, indeed do not know how to use them. I'd like to see kids design something on a computer and then actually make it - best of both worlds.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-76814834728631147922012-12-02T09:44:27.761+10:302012-12-02T09:44:27.761+10:30Getting kids to read for pleasure is the job of te...Getting kids to read for pleasure is the job of teacher librarians like me. But we're a dying species. Since schools have been given their own budgets and principals a choice of how to spend it, it has become too easy to make cutbacks in areas such as the school library. My own budget has been cut in half in the sat two years and it was tiny to begin with. I have taken pride in getting around this problem and finding ways to give our students the Brst library experienc, but people like me won't be around for much longer.<br />As for origami, it was a student who showed me how to make a paper crane. ;-) But the ones where I work do some wonderful things for their assignments and take pride in their "projects". One of my Year 8 girls made me a fabulous card for National Teachers Day and three others got together to make something to celebrate the launch of my first novel.<br /><br />Why shouldn't kids be creative with things other than paper and glue anyway? When I was growing up, I would have been thrilled to have the chance to do a book trailer or even a simple PowerPoint. We had to use paper and glue because that's all that was available, but this doesn't mean it's the only thing that SHOULD be available.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com