A study of instructional development knowledge and competency among teacher-librarians in Newfoundland

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The purpose of this study was to determine instructional development knowledge and competency among teacher-librarians in the province of Newfoundland. Resource-based approaches to curriculum are being implemented throughout Canada, and, the Newfoundland Department of Education recommends a resource-based approach to teaching and learning, although a formal model has yet to be adopted. Because this approach requires that teacher-librarians and classroom teachers work together as teaching partners in the curriculum implementation process, using instructional development in a cooperative program planning process, it was desirable to establish the level of instructional development knowledge and competency of teacher-librarians. -- The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) published a task force report, in 1982, on instructional development certification which provided a list of core, performance-oriented instructional development competencies for the instructio

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