Reply To: Using FOSIL outside a full inquiry

[Ruth Participant]

Good afternoon and thanks to all for opening this conversation

I am so pleased to read this thread and find that not only did it cement the conversation that Elizabeth and I had had but it also reinforces much of my thinking. This is the basis on which I had been working without really realising and now I feel reinvigorated and more able to explain my position to staff.

As you know we are and IB school and I work with the 3 year MYP and DP programs and I am using Darryl’s ATL/FOSIL map and combining it with our curriculum to support the explicit teaching of ATL at our school. I had been battling with how to explain the value of FOSIL in this situation but this has bought clarity to my thinking.

I need to keep the idea of ‘stance’ in my mind. I certainly feel like that kind of Librarian but sometimes that gets lost in the day to day of the library and while I find this kind of work extremely stimulating and rewarding it it is not always the easiest part of my job to prioritise. One of the sadnesses of working in isolation is that these conversations only happen online, in writing, where I’m not in my natural habitat. Thanks so much to Elizabeth for her membership, I do have the opportunity to have these conversations in person which is very useful and has brought me back here.