Fw: Follow-up activities with scheduled elem. classes.

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchan@scott.net>]

>I see my elementary students in a scheduled 30-minute period each week.
One
>problem that I have discovered is that no matter how well the students
>respond to the activity that I present to them (story, writing, word games,
>etc.) there is no follow-up in the classroom even though I let the teacher
>know what I am doing.  For example, when the book "Dinorella" was included
>in our book fair and the students saw the video which explained
>alliteration, I had each class take a letter of the alphabet and make up
>words to be used in a story later.  Only one of the six teachers continued
>the activity in the classroom and I had very few students actually turn in
a
>story.
>
>By the time the students come to the library a week later, they have
>forgotten the activity and what I was trying to get across.  I have tried
>asking the teachers to let me know what they are doing in class so that I
>can plan activities around their lessons to no avail.  Because the students
>need a check-out period during their library period as well, I have no time
>to do follow-up activities to my lesson.
>
>Because of this, I feel that the library period is just entertainment or a
>break for teachers.  Last year when I tried to get the teachers to fill out
>a simple form letting me know what they were doing in class I had one
>teacher say that it wasn't her job to plan my lessons for me.
>
>Any suggestions on what to do?
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>Madeline L. Buchanan, Library Media Specialist
>W. J. Christian School, Birmingham, Alabama  35206
>Phone (205) 838-7666 or 838-7673
>Fax (205) 838-7622
>mlbuchan@scott.net
>http://www.scott.net/~mlbuchan
>http://www.scott.net/~wjc
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>

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