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Mary
1. Our teacher prep is covered by music - 1/week, PE -3/week, art
-1hr/week
(I think or it could be every other week) I'm not prep time, but I
don't require teachers to remain in the library. Some stay, some don’t,
some plan in the library.
Debbie Balsam
Taylor Elementary
Arlington, VA
2. I haven't worked as a librarian in a district where the library was
on flexible scheduling, but I have substitute in a few. Some provide a
second weekly period of phys ed which actually is closer to the state
standard. This alternative though requires the hiring of another phys
ed
teacher and generally the use of the cafe/all purpose room as a second
gym when lunches are not being served. Others provide a computer lab
period supervised by either a teacher or a paraprofessional.
Still more hire lunch supervisors who take the kids out for a 15-20 min
recess after they eat. Teachers lose one "special" a week, but get a
45-50 min. duty-free lunch every day. Actually, this usually ends up
with the teachers booking their "flex" time in the library on their no
"specials" day. But since the teachers are not on prep period they have
to stay with their kids. This can create the opportunity for
collaboration in the library. The librarian will be in charge of how
this time gets booked and used. She simply restricts class book
exchange with no lesson plan to 15 min. This will allow kids to get
books and the classes to get a break and still leave time for extended
activities for those who want to plan an hour or so with the librarian.
I like this idea the best if you have a population of Moms or Grandmas
who would like to earn minimal wage to work an hour or two with the
neighborhood kids or if you are blessed with
paraprofessionals who can be scheduled for lunch duty.
Dorothy E. Tissair, M.L.S.
Library Media Specialist
Old Saybrook, CT 06475 dtissair@snet.net
3. We have a foreign language program in upper Elementary. Teacher's
schedules are also in block periods to allow for team planning.
Sherry Scoville
Elementary Librarian
AISR-Riyadh, S.A.
4. If they have PE two or three times a week, a Guidance lesson, a
technology lesson in a computer lab...any of those could fill in for
scheduled library. PE is popular because kids don't get enough excercise
5. the district where I was at before hired a para to man a silent
readingroom. The older students would go in and sit and read for 30
minutes 2 or 3times a week. The younger students did partner reading, or
the para read stories to them. Or older students came in and read
stories to the youngerstudents. It was just a really neat reading time.
6. Although I do not have a flex schedule, I serve as planning time only
once all week. We have 45 classrooms grades K-5. Each grade level
begins planning at 7:45, our start time. Using K-2 teacher assistants
the classes are covered until 9:15. No assistant is exempt, in fact my
media assistant was assigned today to a kindergarten classroom for
Friday mornings. On Wednesdays both 3rd and 5th grade has planning, but
at different times. Third is first at 7:45. Fifth grade planning begins
at 8:45am. Then we have two classes, as do 2 other special area
teachers. At 9:25 all fifth grade students go to Band, Orchestra or
Chorus.
I'm not sure how teachers (or assistants) like this, but it does allow
me to pop into planning meetings every now and then.
Hope this helps.
Carol Savage
Library Media Specialist
Hawk Ridge Elem.
Charlotte, NCc.savage@cms.k12.nc.us
7. I guess it depends on how much time each class spends in PE, Music,
art. Our kids have pe every day and art/music every other. therefore
the teachers get an hour of prep each day. They also have another 1/2
hour every other day with spanish. The teachers do accompany their
students to the computer lab and the library, and we have a modified
flex. schedule. The youger kids (PreK-2) have a scheduled
storytime/checkout...but the other grades can schedule a checkout if
they want, and/or schedule for projects as needed. This is a PreK-8th
grade school with 450 students.
Lorraine Smith
Librarian
St. Gabriel's Catholic School
Austin, TX lorraine.smith@sgs-austin.org
8. in our school our intermediate classes have band and this year drama
for their special other than library. I am on a half flex schedule. In
the afternoon, I teach regular library times.
jonie fitzsimmons mirls
mountainside elementary
ft. carson. Co
9. New this year our school system has added a Technology teacher and
computer lab for elementary students. This is in addition to our music,
art, and phys ed classes, and all four are used for teacher prep time.
(And had the added bonus of taking the media center out of the teacher
prep business, back to flex scheduling! YAY)
10. Our schools have the DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Education)
program which is conducted by local law enforcement. Also, we have
computer lab which the students attend.
For 4 out of 6 six-weeks I teach 6th graders for 45 min (split blocks) 2
days a week. Depending on which six-weeks it is, I have between four
and six classes a day. This is fine with me as I would miss not
teaching at all and it gives them an intro to their new library and
librarian. (Some
students come for 2 six weeks, others only for one, depending on if they
are taking band, etc.) Computer lab takes up another 2 days of the week
and then they have guidance the last day of the week. The 2 six-weeks
where I don't have them is, I believe, where DARE kicks in.
I love having this mostly flex schedule. It leaves the library open for
group and individual book exchange, group research, and individual
visits for the student who has earned free time from the classroom to
use a computer, read a magazine or book or listen to a cd. (Students
love the
latter!) Believe me, I stay busy all day long. I do block out a 30
min lunch for myself and also block out my own 90 min "planning" prd
just like the teachers get. I block these out ahead of time on the
sign-up schedule or else the thing fills up and I don't get them! I
vary the time I take for "planning" from one day to the next so that no
one is consistently kept from booking a block for research or group
exchange. I am also flexible about moving my lunch time around if need
be. I am keeping my sign-up schedules for each month to show my
principal at evaluation time that the library and my services really are
used. (This is my first year in this school.)
Julia Steger, Librarian, Clifton Middle School, Clifton Forge VA
11. Our teachers receive 45 mins. every day of prep time, too. While
they're having planning time, the kids are at PE for 45 mins. every
day. It's the most looked forward to part of the day!
12. In our district, the teachers have 7 prep periods per week, library
being one of them. The kids have gym 3 times (30 minutes each), art,
music, library, computer (40 minutes each). (BTW - special teachers only
get 6 preps....)
Molly Manning Clark, LMS
Elm St. Elementary School
Phoenix, NY mclark2@phoenix.k12.ny.us
13. I am currently prep time for teachers but I used to teach at a
couple of other schools where teachers were required to stay with their
classes in the library. Their prep time was covered by PE, Music, and
computers. Most classes had PE 3 times/week, music once, and computers
once. Another school had teachers do something similar but sometimes
they missed their PE
(or other special). Their prep time was guaranteed at the beginning or
end of the day. We were required to stay 30 minutes after students left
and to be there 15 minutes before school started which added up to the
guaranteed prep time. If you had PE, Music, or Computers, it was an
added bonus. I've also worked at schools where teachers taught their
own music, art, and
PE. The ONLY prep time was before/after school. I think some teachers
are very spoiled by having guaranteed prep time - we don't get that, do
we????
14. Our teachers have planning time during art, music and phys ed
instruction. In addition, lunch/recess aides are hired so that four days
a week teachers have 30 minutes of planning time in addition to their
30-minute lunch break. Hope this helps.
15. In my k-5 school we are on flexible sheduling for 3-5 and fixed for
k-2. It works well....the teachers stay with their classes so I feel
like am accomplishing a lot. Their prep periods are covered by music,
art and phys. ed. three times a week. We have 2.5 gym teachers for 500
kids. We've been doing this for 5 years with great success. Good Luck.
Geri Szoke
Ridgeway Elem.
Manchester, NJ gsread@cs.com
--
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know
where we can find information."
Samuel Johnson
Mary D. Boyaj
Lincoln Middle & High Schools' Library
135 Old River Road
Lincoln, RI 02865
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