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CHAPTER 2 : IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL

RESOURCE CENTER
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• Use of resources, including Internet and CD-ROM to gather information
• Use as study area, including revising and homework
• Use of careers information
• Personal use, for pleasure, to relax and socialize
• Reading of fiction, newspaper and magazines
• Computer and Internet access was mentioned as separate category by most
( for pleasure, games, information, skills, email and word processing)
• Inter Library Loan
• Extra curricular activities
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• Improved students work and therefore improved their marks
• Provide them with information to enable completion of work, especially
current information (from the Internet and newspapers)
• Wider general knowledge (including an understanding of different people and
cultures) and recognition of differing opinions
• Development of skills, specified as ICT, study, and library skills.
• Developing an understanding of the need to work and the need for resources
• Confidence to work independently and more discipline
• Enabling decision-making
• In the lower years helping to make friends (developing interpersonal skills)
•The librarian helped to motivate pupils
• Bring out enjoyment
• Opportunity to borrow books
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• Helps the school to develop information and research skills among teachers
and students
• Develop library skills among the teachers and students
• Helps the school to motivate learning by encouraging positive, fun
experience and raising self-esteem and by providing a wide range of
opportunities and enriching learning experiences.
• SRC provides and organize suitable resources to support curriculum needs
and to support teachers need either for teaching or personal used
• Promoting library, resources and potential services to existing and new
members of staff and pupils, including staff information, reading promotion and
links with other agencies
• Playing an active part in the whole school community especially to support
teaching and learning
• Encourage confident use of resources and independent learning among the
school staffs and students
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• Their students able to navigate the SRC and its resources (developing library
schools)
• The students and teachers at the school enable to become confident and
independent in locating and handling information.
• Improved the school achievement in teaching and learning by the use of
differentiated resources, when necessary or encouraging pupils to do extra
work or more than is required in the classroom.
• Giving computer access to the students and teachers and develop their ICT
use
• Develop reading habits among the school community
• Develop the culture of sharing information
• Break down barriers and encouraging use by making libraries acceptable.
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• Supporting the process of teaching and learning become the responsibilities
of school resource centre.
• Several impacts of school resource centre in the sense of helping teachers in
teaching process can be seen as below examples:
 English
 Helps teacher to teach information searching skills among
students especially for English materials
 Helping teachers to encourage readings among students by the
existence of various fictions titles
 Providing teachers up to date information on topical subject for e.g.
literature, grammar
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 Modern Language
 Teacher used SRC for video and audio conferencing to teach
remote pupils and rely on librarian for technical support
 Teacher used Internet to access foreign newspaper for student
used
 Home Economics
 Teacher used SRC to support curriculum related projects to
develop information handling skills to support skills developed in the
library induction or skills courses covered earlier.
 SRC thought to provides a suitable environment for collaborative
work
 Religious and Moral Education
 Teacher used SRC as a medium to introduce ICT skills,
particularly using the Internet
 Teacher asked students to develop closed relationship with
librarian so that they can guide information handling for successful
research outcomes.
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 Teacher expecting SRC to teach student for information handling
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and guide students on ICT skills especially for presentation
 Social subjects
 Internet and ICT provides valuable means for teacher to help
students find more sophisticated historical investigation about
subject e.g. history
 SRC cater the requirements for current information from the
Internet to support modern studies
 Art and Technical
 Teacher used SRC for ad hoc sourcing of images and background
information besides sourcing of artifacts to draw
 Mathematics
 SRC helped teachers for effective math teaching by providing
suitable teaching aided material e.g. computer program and
application
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Music and Drama
 The availability of CD-ROM collection and AVA helps teachers a
lot in term of music support and vide display
 Guidance
 SRC helps to develop personal attitude of students, therefore
teacher used SRC to focus all concentration on their future career
information.
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• The acquisition of information to complete a subject specific task
• The teachers thought skills development was a high priority for pupils using
the SRC covering range of library, information, ICT and reading skills.
• Using the SRC helps to motivate pupils to produce a piece of work especially
using the ICT
• SRC helps to motivate and encourage independent learning
• Teachers found that SRC enabling maximum use of expensive or limited
resources across subject areas
• SRC also contribute to social development and interpersonal skills
• Teachers found that SRC provides equal opportunities in terms of computer
equipment, book resources
• Teachers also found that SRC enriching school life.
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• Supporting the process of teaching and learning is the most essential parts
when discussing about the importance of SRC
• SRC helps a lots in developing the process of teaching and learning in
Malaysia
• SRC become the ambassador of the Ministry of Education in order to
monitor, guide and help the students and teachers so that they can have a
high quality of teaching and learning system.
• By the existence of 9,922 schools all over Malaysia, SRC hopes to fulfill the
requirements of the Ministry of Education and serve as the main agent
whereas teachers and students can fully utilized all the resources provided to
support their teaching and learning
• SRC also importance in helping the Ministry of Education in order to motivate
teachers and students to reach their highest ability and strive their best in
developing the quality of educational system in our country.