HIT: advice for a first timer

[Stephanie Dreyer <sdreyer@FC.MV.K12.MA.US>]

Wow,
   What enthusiastic and supportive responses I got!! I thank each and
everyone of you.
As many other first timers requested the results, I am posting a HIT.
   The response was:
#1. Get to know your other coworkers and greet them by name.
          Find old yearbooks, lists with grades and subjects taught, etc.
to accomplish this.
#2. The custodian(s) and other staff appreciate your friendly smile and
they usually help you throughout the
         year, so treat them just as you do credentialed staff.
#3.  Get the feel of the place.  Learn where the faculty lounge is,
bathroom, copier, etc.
#4.  Spend a lot of time in your library, looking at the books you have,
pulling them off the shelves, etc.
#5. If already automated, practice using the system.
#6. find copies of the library rules and circulation policies in place.
#7.  Put together a list of library rules,  list of the services the
library will provide to the classrooms.
#8.  Prepare any bulletin boards you will want to use.
#9. Make sure you know how to operate the audio visual equipment.
#10. Ask the principal and/or business secretary how they want invoices,
purchase orders and requisitions
            handled.
#11. get approval from the principal for the library rules, letters to
parents, memos to teachers.
 #12. plan as much as you can.
#13. read, read and read!

Thank You again!!!
Stephanie W. Dreyer, LMS
West Tisbury School (K-8)
Sdreyer@fc.mv.k12.ma.us

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