I have actually taken the folder approach one step further. We have a set
series of activities and books that our classes move through. For example,
in first grade our focus is on "Book characters you should know" and we
always read Harry, the Dirty Dog, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible...,
Josephina Hates her Name, etc., so I have designed 3 column sheets, listing
all the books and activities the first grades do, in the first column.
Then, for each class, I have only to write down in a second column the date
on which we did that activity. I keep a third column for notes on anything
I need to remember, problems, issues, etc. This makes keeping track very
easy, and means I have a way to check which classes have done which
activities. Towards the end of the year, I am no longer asking each class
"Have we read this book yet?" I have sheets for each grade level, and I
make up the folders at the beginning of the year. It's a very quick and
easy way to organize myself for the year.
Linda L.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Mladenich" <klibrary@HARBORNET.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: ELEM: especially fixed schedule:how do you keep track of
lessons taught
> I keep a file folder for each classrrom. I try really hard - sometimes I
> miss - but I try really hard to write down the date and what took place on
> that visit. Sometimes I add special issues that come up that might need to
> be addressed on the next visit. For example a kindergarten teacher shared
> with me that one little boy declared that he will "never" check out a book
> and it has become a challange that he will use the library and check out a
> book. Then she left the library so...I needed to remember that for the
next
> time - so I wrote it down in the "journal" (for lack of a better term) for
> the class for that day. I could drag you through other issues that I have
> logged in the classroom "journal" but I think you have the idea that I'm
> trying to pass on. I have tried various methods and end up spending too
much
> time writing down a plan that doesn't happen. I plan - but I write down
what
> really takes place and that is what I refer to before the class comes in
the
> next week.
>
> Good luck - I've been reading this list for a few years now and I don't
> remember a question quite like this before.
> Kathy Mladenich
> Library Technician
> Artondale Elementary School
> Gig Harbor, WA
>
> http://psd.peninsula.wednet.edu/school/artondale/library/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary" <sky3ler2003@YAHOO.COM>
> To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:54 PM
> Subject: ELEM: especially fixed schedule:how do you keep track of lessons
> taught
>
>
> > Okay, I have a notebook with a page for each teacher, but is there a
> better (no, not the best, but the quickest and easiest)way to keep track
of
> what is taught, for example, I was going to teach all the 4th grades this
> week a note-taking lesson, some for science, some for social studies. To
> make a long story short, I did not do it with the 4th grade today, but did
a
> Caldecott lesson with the books Snowflake Bentley and Snow crystals.
(which
> we are doing with K-2 this week and with 3rd and 4th later in the month)
> What is the easiest way to remember I did not do note-taking with this
> class, but did do Caldecott?
> >
> >
> >
> > Mary Walter, Librarian
> > Jamestown Elementary, Arlington, VA
> > sky3ler2003@yahoo.com
> >
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