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Description

Applications are invited for a temporary Itinerant Teacher Librarian position for the school pod of Grenfell High, Grenfell Elementary and North Valley Elementary schools.  This position will commence as soon as possible and end on June 29, 2016.  

As an instructional leader, the Teacher Librarian has several responsibilities (for full details, please go to www.pvsd.ca):

-Collaborating with teachers to identify resources that support provincial curricula outcomes and developing strategies for integrating these resources into instructional programs;
-Collaborating with teachers to plan instruction and assessment to support curricular outcomes, with particular focus on literacy;
-Collaborating with teachers to integrate activities and resources that develop information literacy outcomes across curricula;
-Working with students, teaching them to locate information appropriate to their needs, assess its relevance, use it for educational purposes, share it with others, and integrate it with what they already know to create new knowledge and new understandings;
-Collaborating with teachers and other professionals to select resources for inclusion in the school library, and to weed the collection so it reflects the schools educational needs and the criteria in the school divisions selection policy;
-Modeling use of technology in the school library and classrooms;
-Assessing the appropriateness of those technologies for the school library and making recommendations regarding their acquisition; -Managing the school library program and all activities related;
-Implementing procedures, developing and managing school library budgets, monitoring staff, and managing the facility.