Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Working On My Hours

    So far this week I've been working on my evaluation of the reference collection project.  I spent some time online looking at different reference materials that I would like to add to our media center.  I found some good materials that should meet the needs of our pre-k through 5 students better than the materials that we have on the shelves now.  I have also been working on my collaborative lesson.  I am filling out the lesson plan based on my discussion with the teacher, and I've been looking for some online activities to work on the information literacy skills that I will target in the unit.  I found a few that I will share with the teacher to get her input.  This week is a short week for our students due to an in-service on Thursday and fall break on Friday and next Monday.  The teacher for my unit will be on a field trip all day tomorrow (Wed.), and she'll be in a workshop all day Thursday.  So, we won't have a chance to meet and plan again until next week.  
   After I left my school today, I went to our middle/high school to get some more practicum hours at a different grade level.  I reshelved some books in the fiction and  non-fiction areas, and I began straightening the non-fiction shelves.  Keeping the books in the right order is sharpening my math skills!  Today I saw a big difference in the non-fiction books at the two media centers.  Most of the ones at the middle/high school are bigger and heavier than those at the elementary school.  Several of the books that I rearranged today were too bulky for me to pick up with one hand.  That rarely happens in our non-fiction section.  In fact, some large books fell over on the shelf where I was working and broke a plastic slide-on bookend.  It doesn't seem that it would take so long to shelve books, but I only made it through part of the non-fiction area today.  

Hours Spent in the Atkinson County Middle/High School Media Center:  3.5
 

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