Cooperative Planning and Teaching (CPT) between Teachers and the Teacher Librarian in a Hong Kong Primary School to Equip Students with Information Literacy Skills

Abstract

In this information explosion era, information literacy skill becomes a survival skill. Creativity leads the way the world changes. Knowledge continues to be renewed and constructed. The role of education is to equip students with life long independent learning skill -- information literacy skill, which has to be obtained in curriculum context. Subject teachers alone or the teacher librarian alone cannot provide the necessary learning context. Cooperative Planning and Teaching (CPT) between them to integrate information literacy skill into the curriculum provides the necessary context. It has to be facilitated by flexible library scheduling. This paper presents the process of initiating CPT in a primary school in Hong Kong.