My comments below are in response to this e-mail and the later target e-mail about
grades.
In my K to 8 school, I've been giving library grades for 8 years for grades 5
through 8. When I first started, my grade was passed to the Language Arts teachers
who then factored the grade into their grade. Three or four years ago we bought an
automated grading program and I was told that my Library grade had to be an
individual subject grade. I was happy that Library was getting the recognition that
it deserved but on the other hand it has caused a lot more work for me.
My assessments are based upon quizzes, projects, homework, etc and not on behavior,
or as I reassured the students, overdue library books. I'm on the right hand side
of the report card with Art, so the grade scale is U (unacceptable - 60-69), I
(improvement needed - 70-79), M (meets expectations - 80-89) and E (exceeds
expectations - 90 -100). Music, believe it or not, is on the left side of the
report card and is factored into their cumulative average. With Library, if they
have an I they cannot get honors. These sometimes results in phone calls from
parents but the school is very supportive of the importance of library and library
skills to the curriculum.
There is much collaboration between the library and the teachers, so many of my
assessments are connected with work they do in other classes. For example, we are
currently researching History Day for grades 6-8, and so students receive a library
grade for their research and sources and Annotated Works Consulted. In addition, we
blog and they receive a grade for their participation with the blog. For their
library curriculum, they receive grades for any homework connected with the unit.
You could probably do similar assessments with younger students.
I assign a numeric grade and the grading program "converts" it to the letter scale.
Fortunately, I don't need to assess the lower grades. They'd have to clone me for
that.
Rosanne Zajko - Librarian
Ancillae Assumpta Academy
Wyncote, Pa.
rmzajko@comcast.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mariah Prentiss" <mfredrica@YAHOO.COM>
To: "LM NET" <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:25:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [LM_NET] Grades for Library Class
Hello helpful people,
I'm a new LMS. I'm wondering how many other k-5 LMS's are required to give report
card grades. The one time so far that I've given grades I followed the lead of the
last librarian and graded 3rd-5th graders on effort and participation.
I've just learned we are completely revamping our report cards in an effort to make
them more meaningful. I, along with the Art, Music and PE were just asked what we
consider important to measure. We are changing to grades for K-5 rather than just
3-5. One idea discussed was rather than having a separate librayr grade we could
incorporate it into the classroom teacher's grades. I would provide the teacher
with my assessment on a student's information literacy skills either generally or
as they relate to a particular subject. I'm trying to get my mind around this...
I'd love to hear thoughts and reactions.
Mariah Prentiss
Groton Elementary School LMC
Groton, NY 13073
mfredrica@yahoo.com
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