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Supporting Teachers’ ICT Curriculum and Pedagogy: On-going Professional Development On-going professional development is important for teachers, both old and new, to participate in.  This  adds to our own learning and development as well as the students we teach.  The school's Teacher-Librarian (TL) is one member of a learning community that can play a big part in supporting teacher's curriculum and pedagogy.  Meeting the needs of new teachers and experienced teachers alike is important for the TL as it serves to maintain and foster collaboration with their colleagues.  It is also an opportunity for TLs to take on a leadership role  by presenting professional development workshops  to other teachers and staff. (Retrieved from Google Image) For new teachers and staff, having a library orientation session would be most helpful for them to become familiar with what is available to them in terms of equipment, teaching resources, procedures, and protocols.  In my d

What am I doing to develop my own ICT and pedagogy? I will continue to learn about the various educational Apps and Web Tools and whichever ones I think will benefit my students’ learning, I will introduce it to the class and have students 'play' with it. Such as Wordle and Wordsift, and much more on the following website: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/10-ways-use-technology-build-vocabulary . Wordle is a word cloud generator and Wordsift works in similar ways and both are great for vocabulary development.  Wordsift also is good for students that tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of words in a text.  Wordsift help sifts through a piece of text and identifies important words in the text by making the word bolder, bigger and most prominent. I think these tools would be useful for my English Language Learner (ELL) students, as well as my struggling learners in helping develop vocabulary, foster and encourage reading. I see my students every day so I think I