SPP Checklist

Situated Professional Practice Checklist

As I undertake my situated professional practice, items covered will be highlighted on the checklist below.

 1.  Role of the Teacher-Librarian

  • Standards articulation: ASLA /ALIA standards
  • Discussions with practitioners
  • Discussion with school principal
  • Comparative discussion with other library and information service practitioners

2.  Design and Delivery of Information Literacy Programs

  • Design, development and implementation
  • Orientation and introduction programs
  • Information literacy
  • Curriculum and learning program support for teachers
  • Literature programs
  • Promotion, advocacy and marketing
  • Publications and presentations

3.  Design and Development of Library and Information Environments

  • TL or information professional roles in school/community contexts & collaborative professional partnerships
  • The physical site and facilities
  • The collections (on-site, online, dispersed, multi-campus)
  • Mission statements/goal setting
  • Library and information service development planning
  • Committees/Reference Groups
  • Monitoring and evaluation

4.  General Administration

  • Policies and procedures
  • Financial planning and budgets
  • Reporting requirements and activities
  • Management of automated systems
  • Management of networked computers and digital resources
  • Management of, or input to, school website
  • Policy development and management connections
  • Management of physical spaces
  • Time management
  • Student management
  • Management of volunteer and student assistant programs

5.  Selection, Ordering and Processing of Materials

  • Evaluation and selection responsibilities
  • Procedures for categories of resources
  • Ordering procedures for: books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, digital materials, online subscription services
  • Cataloguing/processing responsibilities
  • Use of computerised subscription services

 6.  Bibliographic Organisation

  • Cataloguing and classification procedures for categories of resources
  • SCIS – TL roles in customising subject access to support curriculum and learning programs

7.  Circulation/Loans

  • Borrowing procedures
  • Teacher professional materials
  • Reading materials
  • Class loans: curriculum materials
  • Resource/collection locations and management
  • Overdue procedures

8. Collection Management

  • Routine maintenance (stock take, weeding)
  • Inventory control
  • Culling
  • Challenged materials

9. Personnel: roles and relationships

  • Work/roles of professional and ancillary staff
  • Work/roles of student assistants
  • Work/roles of volunteers
  • Working with teachers – TL collaborative learning & teaching roles
  • Working with school administration
  • Training ancillary staff and volunteers

10.  Library Environment

  • Spaces for formal and informal learning
  • Philosophical and pedagogical perspectives on designing school library spaces
  • Creating atmosphere – ‘sense of place’
  • Displays and promotion

11.  Professional Development and Networking

  • Professional development plan
  • Professional association membership
  • School community committees
  • Conference attendance
  • Training programs