Teaching Critical Literacy and Reference Materials to Elementary Students
For the final blog of this course, I will be reflecting on my philosophy and pedagogy on instructing critical literacy to students. I will discuss how I would introduce critical literacy and reference resources to students as a teacher-librarian in an elementary learning commons. Video: How to Use Reference Materials Once students have grown more confident in their reference use, I would implement resource-based learning into lessons. This would help students develop their research and critical literacies. Both print and digital reference resources would be included in these lessons as tools for meaningful and relevant learning. According to the Canadian Association for School Libraries, “To implement the resource-based teaching and learning model, school libraries must provide access to a rich range of print, non-print, media-based, electronic, and digital resources- tools that teachers and student...