As a novice using A+ Education, I immediately investigate the Advanced Search options by looking at the Thesaurus to include the many terms surrounding my evolving question: What role does the teacher librarian play in a primary school inquiry learning process?

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Search One

I used the advance settings to search for “teacher librarian” “inquiry learning” “primary” “role.” I also included a refined year range to be more recent, 2000 – 2019. This resulted in 34 articles.

Those of interest included:

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* Three in one: Teacher, information specialist, leader

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This article talked about the importance of action research to get inquiry learning and collaboration with classroom teachers and librarians occurring. This article talked about many key figures related to inquiry with a collaborative approach. Perhaps I need to search for them? The article has me thinking, what role do school principals play in the way inquiry learning is embedded in schools?

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New terms: disciplinary inquiry, inquiry experience, shared learning, collaborative programming and teaching, thinking curriculum.

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* From realism to abstraction

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Some of the results in the searches were just about “teacher librarians and inquiry” and “teachers and inquiry,” not both. Perhaps my next search needs to be “collaboration” “teacher librarian” “Inquiry learning.” Interestingly, the term “primary” resulted in the meaning initial or first rather than primary students. I will need to include “primary students” in the next search.

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One of the last articles made me think as teacher librarians more of teaching partners than the relationship being a collaborative working relationship… What roles do we assume as teaching partners in inquiry learning?

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* How teacher-librarians can build evidence of student learning.

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