About Me

Hi, my name is Maeve Poulin! I have my Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, a certificate in Early Childhood Education and I am currently completing a Teacher Librarian certificate. I live in Glasgow, Scotland and work at a nature preschool. I love to sing, dance, and travel! My next destination is Spain (Barcelona, Granada and Malaga)!

My Mission Statement for the TL Role

My mission as a Teacher Librarian is to help students, teachers and families grow as individuals; become confident, capable, contributors to society and ensure everyone feels safe, loved and challenged.

My Vision Statement for a LLC

My vision for the LLC is to be a dynamic, inclusive space essential to school life, where diverse resources, universal design, and ongoing collaboration empower student agency, creativity, critical thinking, and meaningful community connection.

Key things my LLC will include:

  • A space that is more than just a place to sign out books
    • Focus on collaboration, school/community events, virtual/physical services, and providing innovative resources/tools (Sykes)
    • A place to build strong life skills to become successful contributors to society! 
  • Makerspace area to promote design thinking and creating knowledge (Lyons)
  • Diverse selection of books and resources (“Culturally Relevant Pedagogy”)
    • Entire section of Indigenous Books and other culturally relevant materials
  • Student agency present throughout the learning commons (LaGarde)
  • Flexible seating to adapt to diverse student needs
    • Collaboration VS independent work (Chen et al.)
    • A place where ALL learners are welcome

My Teaching Philosophy

As educators, our actions have such a strong impact on our students’ lives. Especially in the elementary years, we are not only responsible for teaching them numeracy and literacy skills, but how to be kind and caring individuals. My personal teaching philosophy reflects this. I want to establish relationships with all my students so that they feel like they are all treated equally and have someone who is interested in their lives. By showing an interest in my students’ lives, I hope that one day they will reciprocate that with other people in their lives and become kind, curious and confident contributors to society. I also try to foster a positive learning environment in every class I teach by modelling positivity and enthusiasm.

This digital portfolio outlines some of the work I have completed for my Teacher Librarian (TL) certificate and includes valuable resources about technology and the highly important role of a TL and Library Learning Commons. Part of being a TL is being the “conduit” to connect the school to the greater community (Miller 8:20) and engaging families and the community in the school (American Library Association). It requires incorporating care, support, connection, and innovation into daily practice. While I have “mastered” connection with my students, I would love to learn more about building connections with my school and wider community. As a lifelong learner, I also am currently working on developing my literacy skills so that I can best support my early readers, writers and researchers. After all, the Government of British Columbia states these skills should be continuously developed from grades K-12!

Stay, explore, and hopefully learn something new!

Works Cited

American Library Association. “Evaluate Information: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose.” National Policy Board for Educational Administration, n.d., https://libguides.ala.org/ld.php?content_id=45283445.

Chen, Jianan, et al. “Differentiated Impact Mechanisms of Informal Learning Spaces in University Libraries from a Learning Experience Perspective: A Case Study of Tianjin University.” Buildings [Basel], vol. 16, no. 1, Jan. 2026. Gale Academic OneFile, dx.doi.org.proxy.queensu.ca/10.3390/buildings16010165

“Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” Inclusion Canada, http://www.inclusioncanada.net/culturallyrelevantpedagogy.html.

Government of British Columbia. English Language Arts K–9: Big Ideas. July 2019, https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/curriculum/continuous-views/en_ela_k-9_big_ideas.pdf.

LaGarde, Jennifer. “From Student Voice to Student Agency: Creating Library Spaces for Kids by Kids.” Library Girl, 20 Mar. 2019, https://www.librarygirl.net/post/from-student-voice-to-student-agency-creating-library-spaces-for-kids-by-kids

Lyons, Beth. “Maker. Space. Inquiry. Place. What Might Be the Connection?” Canadian School Libraries Research Archive, 10 Aug. 2020, https://researcharchive.canadianschoollibraries.ca/2020/08/10/maker-space-inquiry-place-what-might-be-the-connection/

Miller, Shannon McClintock, host. “Innovate, Collaborate, and Explore.” Leading from the Library, 19 Oct. 2021, https://leading-through-the-library.simplecast.com/episodes/innovate-collaborate-and-explore

Sykes, Judith Anne. The Whole School Library Learning Commons: An Educator’s Guide, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/queen-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4649474.