IN DEPTH
Teachers as readers
Ruth Clark talks about a professional collaboration at the University of Chichester with the aim of helping pre-service teachers to develop a love of children’s literature before they enter the classroom – so that they in turn can inspire children to love reading for pleasure.
THE University of Chichester has a strong national reputation for teach- ing, and a record of training teachers on the Bognor Regis campus from 1839. In 2011, the new Learning Resource Centre opened in Bog- nor with a strong focus on learning resources to support pre-service teachers. On the ground fl oor, a separate collection is dedicated to Classroom Resources. This collec- tion was created to replicate a school library and encourages pre-service teachers to consider the learning environment for the children they will teach. Students can borrow 20 items from this collection to use in placement schools in addition to their allocation for academic books. There are approximately 20,000 items including books, puppets, story sacks, visual resources, and dvds. I am responsible for managing this fantastic collection, including purchasing and promotion to students and staff .
Encouraging trainee teachers to read for pleasure
As subject librarian, I work closely with the Primary English Team in the Institute of Education and as a team of professionals, we share a belief in the benefi ts of read- ing for pleasure for children. If children can read for pleasure they will be stronger
September 2018
Ruth Clark (@RuthEllenClark
R.Clark@
chi.ac.uk) is Subject Librarian, Bognor Regis Campus, University of Chichester.
academically, more empathetic and will have better well-being.1,2
One of the main
ways that I can help children read for pleas- ure is to support the pre-service teachers to develop a love of children’s literature. They have a potential 40 years of infl uence in the classroom ahead of them and if we can initiate an interest in reading children’s books whilst they are training, then the con- sequences for the children they teach could be enormous.
Make them book reviewers However, encouraging students to make full use of the collection during their time of study has to be creative, targeted and relevant to them. Every pre-service teacher has a Classroom Resources induction where
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