I have been doing a fair bit of reading about the obstacles for a TL trying to implement a IL program. I have come to the conclusion that I will focus on collaboration as my chosen obstacle. There are so many journal articles about obstacles to collaboration and I feel a little overwhelmed by the masses of information. I decided to use my husband as a bit of a market research subject as he is also a primary school teacher. He raised an interesting reason for teacher reluctance for collaboration that I had yet to encounter in the literature.
He said that he would be a bit wary as he would be worried that such a collarboration might highlight his own gaps in expertise and knowledge when it comes to information literacy. He says that he is not a literacy minded person but more a mathematically skilled teacher and finds such situations stressful as it often shows up his gaps. I found this interesting as this would seem like the ideal person who would benefit from such a collaboration as the partnership would assist in developing the skills of the teacher as well as the students; but due to this barrier, it may be the people who are most turned off from such an endeavour.
I'm also thinking about using collaboration for the obstacle part of the assignment. I agree with what your husband says, (I wouldn't have thought of it either). I've always struggled myself with literacy and while I'm happy to learn more about ways I can improve in my teaching I would be apprehensive about showing my lack of understanding in a large group environment.
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