LM_NET: Library Media Networking
Question one is easy. Yes, that's a virus. If it is happening at school,
make sure you tech people know. If it is at home, you should download
some antivirus software.
Now the important(and not so easy) one.
I would have to say the Bookfair vid isn't a lesson in itself, even
though it is promoting reading. But there is no library skill being
taught there other than a tangential 'choosing a good book' Not having
some assessment or feedback about the tape also reduces the learning
value of the time spent watching. He may be overboard asking for an
individual written response. How about doing some collaborative work in
pairs or triads? Each person could contribute to the ideas, the writing,
and the editing of responses.
What are your state and district learning requirements (Essential
Learning, Frameworks, Academic Requirements, etc) Frame your lessons to
address them. Just reading a story won't necessarily address them
without some 'set'. Why that particular story: ie plot, setting, or
character elements; comparing two versions of illustrations of a
particular Fairy Tale; introducing a genre or a section of the library,
etc. Point to the LR that the lesson fits.
Also, trying to collaborate and do lessons 'just in time (or in
classroom context) often just isn't possible. Is your principal asking
for curriculum maps from the teachers? That is a way to schedule your
lessons.
Note also that district offices may note how many people ask to transfer
out of a building and how many ask to transfer in. Interesting
statistic.
Also, be aware that the library and the librarian should be an
information center as well as a place to find a book to read. Make sure
you are covering research skills thoroughly. Selecting sources, reading
for and extracting information, taking notes, and organization are all
vital parts of information literacy and that is really our domain. Who
else in your building has that expertise?
For a quick start, check out www.big6.com An excellent IL research
process with many resources.
Robert Eiffert,
Librarian at Image Elementary
http://www.ima.egreen.wednet.edu/library.html
Elementary Librarian BLog
www.crypticmachinery.com
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanna Dennis
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:22 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Target:Wierd messages and lesson plans (long)
I am getting the same messages from klafountain@home that are something
like
Hi. I am sending this message to get your advice on this file.
(not an exact quote.) One had Valentine's Day as the subject and the
other
was word test. I get this same message with a different subject almost
every
day now for a week. Is this how the new virus is sent? I do not open
the
files, ever.
Different subject:
My principal gave me back my lesson plans today and I am furious. his
week I
am showing the Book Fair video to promote the book fair. He wrote"what
skill
are you teaching? WIll the students do a written assignment about how
they
choose their books?"
I will get no library money this year except for what I earn from this
sale.
I have the kids for 30 minutes a week and I have no aid. But I am
suppose to
give written lessons (I am allowed 500 copies a MONTH on the xerox
machine
and I see 520 students a week...you do the math). This comes from
having a
principal that has never taught in a classroom, only a gym, and even
after 4
years of my trying to explain it to him, has no idea what the library is
about. He wants me to teach library skills, math, reading, social
studies,
science...but if I put in my plans I'm reading a story, literature
appreciation is not concidered a "skill".
Sorry for the vent. Do you all have to do lessons plans and how do you
teach
skills? I was taught that skills should be taught in context and I
should be
working with the teachers when they are ready for the skills to be
presented
as psrt of their lessons. Our state plan even states this. But he has
attended all of the classes the state has had for the principals and
still
doesn't get it. (Please don't take this to mean I don't teach or want to
teach skills, but there is a way to do it that benefits the students,
and
making them write about why they choose a book to buy is not the way.).
I think my blood pressure just went down 10 points. Thanks!
Jenna Dennis Librarian
C.F. Hard Elementary
Bessemer, AL
Simon827@aol.com
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