Role of Teacher in using Equipment Resource Centre for Teaching Learning Process

Critically examine the role of teacher in using the equipment resource centre for teaching learning process?

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Answer: A learning resource centre is a facility within a school, staffed by a specialist, containing several information sources. Purpose Information and communication development opportunities and information flow are the big challenges arising from a dedicated review of most educational questions, whether from theoretical frames or material. School libraries are then considered one of the most important resources: within educational facilities. The need to develop school libraries is urgent in that, on the one hand there is a need to convey information via a wide diversity of technologies and resources, and on the other hand, there is a myriad of new teacher and student roles to support. Within this view, came the project of learning centers. The objective is to raise school libraries to an international and more technical standard. Learning Resource Centres can also be institutionalized in various institutions for teaching and learning purposes. The purpose of a resource center is to advanced the learning experience of students and teachers in any educational sector.

A school utility driven by a qualified expert. It contains several information resources and their techniques, which the teacher directly deals to acquire searching skills of information, analyze and evaluate to build a new knowledge and experience, then develop them using several learning methods. It also provides services to, facilitate the useful for both teaching and learning.

This view encourages educational trends, ruled in mid of 1960s and 1970s, whereas these are the methods of self-learning, from programmed learning and learning for mastery and learning throughout audio media to passing earliest beginnings to employ computer in learning process. And, information technology and teaching and learning theories have added a new dimension into learning resources centers concept.

 

Reasons for establishing resources centers

• The strong connection between learning resources and method, and passing away supporting and cultural general role of school libraries into essential, accurately planned, role to achieve the method and its purposes.

• The book and printed material become not the only information resource.

• Development of educational theories, international tends to self learning, taking in account differences of individuals, make the learner the axis of educational process, and the teacher role change into a leader and facilitator of learning process.

• Learning resources centers concentrate on amalgamation of resources, information and communication technologies with educational practices inside centers.

Assignments

• Definition the goals of learning resources centers programs, with and implemented, evaluated plan to achieve these goals.

• Center activities planning and to amalgamate them with school educational program.

• Establishing a balanced group that contains printed and non-¬printed educational and learning materials supporting curriculum.

• School man-power development through continuous training during the period of teachers service and ensuring technical resources, and notify them about new materials, and sharing with them in decision making processes related to resources purchasing.

• Presenting consultation services in the educational techniques field and teaching methods.

• Ensuring educational techniques production requirements and acquainting about methods of their production and amalgamating them into educational curricula.

• Make the periodical maintenance for materials and educational instruments available in the center.

• Encourage students on self-learning.

• Assert the concept learning resource (E.N OSARONWI IAUE PH )

 

The aim Learning resources center's general aim is to ensure learning educational suitable environment that allows learner benefit from any kind of learning resources.

Learning resources centers, material ingredients

 

A) Self-learning auditorium: Self-learning auditorium should facilitate access to all kind of information resources: printed, depending on learning instrument and computerized resources. Then this auditorium should be available, attractive and suitable for student of all grades. Self-learning auditorium includes the following: –
Reception and visitors serving area, cataloguing, borrowing and – management. – Reading and perusal area. – Self-learning area (using several resources) – Electronic learning area – Area when can be maintained learning resources (printed and not printed) – Catalogues area (using computer)

B) Group-learning auditorium: The most important characterizing this auditorium is: it has a various equipment and uses, whereas available projectors depend on computer, radio or live presentation through digital camera. There is available, also, flexible furniture which can be reshaped to suit all kind of group and cooperative learning. And it also prepared for simple designing and production of educational materials and several media.

Collections
Educational resources are considered as most important element of the center, and without it the center cannot achieve its main role. Building and developing collections to be made according to specific policy, made and adapted in order to satisfy center's goals. This policy should ensure the building and development of integrated collection that can help and enrich educational curricula.

Learning resources center specialist's role

As a teacher, the library media specialists works with students and other members of the learning community to analyze learning and information needs, to locate and use resources that will meet those needs, and to understand and communicate the information the resource provides. The library media specialist is knowledgeable about current research on teaching and learning and skilled in applying its findings to a variety of situations – particularly those that call upon students to access, evaluate, and use information from multiple sources in order to learn, to think, and to create and to apply knowledge. In short, the library media specialist teaches students to use information for critical thinking and problem solving using the information literacy standards for student learning set.

A learning resources center's success depends firstly on the range of its engagement in modern learning
methods implementation, which gives more concentration to learner role in learning process, and evaluates work mechanism, in learning resources centers on the bases that learning resources center is not a place supported with learning resources accordingly, but educational action and substantial element of different elements of classroom lesson. The Work mechanism in learning resources centers requires following two methods and merging between them.

1. Benefiting from learning resources centers requires each teacher to implement one lesson weekly (or
according to school classes number) in the learning resources center and to depend, in this lesson, mainly on group learning method (cooperative learning) .

2. In the second method, benefiting from learning resources centers does not require teacher to implement class lesson in learning resources center, but he has to follow up the same previous procedures, then allow the students to implement their projects referring to learning resources center outside the lesson time, and students to be given, in this case, more time to implement the project, then require do a presentation and discussion in the class.