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Australian Teacher Librarian
of the Year Award 2003
The winner of the Australian Teacher Librarian
of the Year Award for 2003 is:
Beverley Endersbee from Para Hills East
Primary School , South Australia
Presented at the ASLA-CBCA
Conference Hobart , 5 October 2003 We congratulate the nominees for the award from each state
and territory in which ASLA is represented.
The nominees are:
| ACT |
Jan Dudley |
Daramalan College |
| NSW |
Helen Schutz |
Loreto Normanhurst |
| NT |
Lesa Cornock |
Braitling Primary School |
| QLD |
Chris Skrzeczynski |
Our Lady of the Rosary School , Kenmore |
| SA |
Beverley Endersbee |
Para Hills East Primary School |
| TAS |
Judi Jagger |
Fahan School |
| WA |
Marie Green |
Newman College |
This national award recognises and honours
an exceptional Australian Teacher Librarian in a school
setting whose professional practice has a positive
impact on student achievement and information literacy .
This Award carries a $1500 cash prize from Pledger Consulting
Pty Ltd and $500 WebLinks - LinksPlus products.
ASLA describes the role of a teacher librarian as having
three key professional specialisations:
- Curriculum leader
- Information specialist
- Information
services manager
Bev Endersbee
Bev has been the Teacher
Librarian at Para Hills East Primary School for the past
13 years during which time she has firmly established her
school library as the 'hub' of the school community.
She accomplished this in many ways, some of which were to:
- cooperatively plan innovative units of work
that accommodate diversity in cultural backgrounds.
- ensure the development of Information Literacy
skills as a high profile priority and the driving force of
the school's change and improvement agenda.
- use many students from Reception to Yr 7
as library monitors ensuring they are critical role models
in the use of information resources.
- establish a Library Promotions Group which
has planned events for students within the school.
Beverley's collaborative and cooperative work has extended
well beyond the walls of the school library. She has facilitated
and presented at a number of conferences and workshops within
South Australia, nationally and in New Zealand. She has also
played significant roles in national and state projects.
As one of her peers has written: "working with Bev is an
exciting, stimulating and evolving journey."
"The Library is the focus for learning within collaborative
teams of classroom teachers and students, a place where technology
lives, where the joy of books consume all of us as we live
our fantasies, experience real life, everyday heroes and
share our lives through a range of media while having fun."
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