Selling our services to other teachers, and having to educate our
supervisors about what our job should be are, in my view, two very different
propositions. It is not necessarily the responsibility of a teacher to know
everything a librarian can do for her. However, in my view, it IS the
responsibility of an administrator to understand the roles of ALL the
special people and special programs in his school, including the library.
It is, after all, supposed to be his school, and he is ultimately
responsible for everything that goes on in it. This is why it both concerns
and disturbs me that these things do not seem to be included in any of the
training programs that are creating our school administrators. Rather
than trying to educate administrators one by one in the field, these types
of things should be part of any program for training supervisors.
Linda Lucke
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From: "Stemig Family" <stemig@CBCRUISER.COM>
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Educating Principals
> Although I agree with Barbara that we shouldn't have to be selling
> ourselves, the truth is that here in California, and I'm sure in other
> places, very few people have any idea about what a library media teacher
> does. I am constantly having teachers who are surprised when I tell them
> about something I could do for them or with them. In my school district,
> elementary library media teachers teach classes while the teachers had
prep
> time. This is often 8-9 classes per day with 30 minutes for each class.
> After taking classes with Dr. David Loertscher, I convinced my principal
> that prep time was not the best use of my time and I now have a flexible
> schedule. Yet I still have a difficult time convincing teachers to make
use
> of my time. I have some teachers who are totally committed and they are
very
> strong advocates. Most of the teachers have been teaching the way they
were
> taught to teach and don't have any vision of what I could do to help them.
I
> have to constantly teach the teachers and the administrators what it is
that
> I do and how much more I could do. It isn't that they don't want my help,
> they have never seen a strong library media program and don't have a
> concrete vision of what it can be. So I am stuck educating the educators
> about the library program. Sometimes I get tired of the constant need to
> advocate and almost sing my own praises to the teachers, but I am totally
> committed to this program and the benefits that it will bring to our
> students. I drive an hour and a half a day to do this job because I love
and
> no school near by hires elementary library media teachers. So I keep
> advocating and learning more about the wonderful field of school
> librarianship from all of you who have so much knowledge to share.
> Dana Stemig
> Library Media Teacher
> Tuolumne Elementary School/ Modesto City Schools District
> Modesto, California
> stemig@cbcruiser.com
> Mrs. Stemig's Library Page: www.monet.k12.ca.us/wright/library is soon to
be
> changing to www.monet.k12.ca.us/tuolumne (I'll now be at only K-6 school
> instead of two. Hooray!)
>
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