Session 1
Welcome
Introductions of New Librarians
Tell where you went over the summer
(Vaughn will pass out book form)NORMS (4 P's)
Overview the agenda (Barry)
(discuss volunteers, Librarian training times, and assistant training
content Wednesday so think about ...)
Review Focus
for Spring 2004:
1.
Integrate technology into each lesson.
2.
Collaborate with teachers to integrate TEKS objectives into lessons.
3. Do
what it takes to get more students into the Library (for example reading
motivation programs).
I. FOUR District initiatives (to prepare for district staff
development, and to help you be better teachers)
A. Design and Delivery of Instruction (DDI) (improves
integrated technology lessons and collaboration lessons) (5 handouts) (30 minutes)
(Barry)
1. Focus, Objective, Purpose
Input, Model, Check
understanding, Practice
Closure
2. Discuss PG/T and Science support, and DDI Lessons in grade level groups
later.
B. Differentiated Instruction (DI) (improves integrated
technology lessons and collaborative lessons)
many good teaching strategies
(website
and handouts) (10 minutes) (Barry)
C. Collaborative Teamwork for Instructional Planning
(improves collaboration on TEKS lessons)
1. Explain Friday, Monday, and
Tuesday, August 6, 9, & 10.
2. Librarians will need teachers'
roadmaps
3. Librarians are part of each grade level/department team
(and/or the second tier supporting the team)
4. Librarians have
permission to invite themselves to any curriculum planning meetings
5. Collaborative LIBRARIAN teamwork - as a
department we will work in teams to develop lessons. (see below for
Librarian teams)
(Velma's PowerPoint) (15 minutes) (Barry)
break
D. Integration of Technology (a spring 2004 focus)
1. Librarians MUST teach the Library
Resources Page to each teacher on their campus so that the teacher learns!
(brainstorm difference between teaching and providing a hook--do both)
(Barry)
2.
Library Resources page - Vaughn
demonstrate how to teach teachers (1 hour)
3. Librarians need to become
efficient users of Word and E-mail (check at least twice a day)
Librarians should become comfortable with FrontPage
PowerPoint,
FrontPage, Word Document, E-mail (show tips - 5 minutes) (Barry)
4. Guusje and Tammy will teach "iKeepBookmarks.com" for
Librarians to teach teachers. (5 minutes)
5. Tammy, Guusje, Kay, and Karen R. will demo the
10th grade Science
lessons. (15 minutes)
(Vaughn will collect book form)
LUNCH (see list of restaurants)
Session 2
II. Collaborative Planning in Teams for Librarians' Roadmap (Librarians
plan lessons about Library Resources Page with DDI and DI handouts) (1
hour)
A. Do "Your Favorite Book" Activity (explain to the
whole group) (Vaughn)
B. Divide up into 5 teams (give all instructions before
Librarians
divide up)
(see Librarian teams below)
C. Plan Instruction (lessons with DDI & DI) (chart paper)
D. Share lessons (30 minutes)
break
Session 3
IV.
State Library Program Standards
(Sept.
ver.) (overview) (1 hour)
(Barry)
A. Process facilities Standard IV as a group for demonstration
B. Divide up into same 5 teams
Standard I (16 strategies) - ele, west
Standard II (13 strategies) - ms
Standard III (25 strategies) - hs
Standard V (18 strategies) - ele. central
Standard VI (33 strategies) - ele. east
C. Each Group go over a Standard
1. preview each row
(strategy),
2. evaluate in order of importance in case you run out of
time,
3. understand the standard, determine where we are in relation to
the standard, if we are exemplary describe how we are to maintain, if we
are less than exemplary determine what barriers prevent us from being
exemplary and what do we need to do to overcome the barriers and become
exemplary
D. Share what you discovered on at least the top 3
strategies in each
standard. (30 minutes share)
Wednesday
Session 4
Review and Reflect
(Script on chart paper with easels) (Liz and Vaughn)
Session 5
III. Procedures
A.
JWalk
overview (Liz)
B. How many books are you limiting your students to
checking out? (Liz show how to change it) (run overdues once in a while to see if you
have any students developing problems)
C. Open Circulation (do you know what it is and
are you doing it?)
D.
Librarians
must teach Library Resources Page to teachers
E. Monthly reports – how to count materials
circulated in-house = scan each book no more than once per day for
duration of project.
F. No fines – not worth the effort and negative
press. Still charge for lost and damaged materials. May substitute other
activities for money to emphasize responsibility of student.
G. No closing the Library (the word "closed"
should never be associated with the Library). You may reduce services i.e.
last day of circulation is May 18.
H. Do not
order materials unprocessed. Your time
is worth more than the cost of processing.
I. Book Exhibit is November 1st.
Your 10 books need to be reviewed and entered into the Review Book
Database by Monday, September 20th at 8:00 AM.
J. New stuff:
Blog,
Wiki, IM
J. Barry, Liz, and Vaughn will be dropping
in to visit each campus at least 3 times a semester for approximately 10
minutes to offer support on DDI, DI, Technology, and Collaboration
followed-up by an e-mail.
Session 6
A.
volunteer recruitment and management (Tell about this on Tuesday so everyone can come prepared to share. Our job
as facilitator will be to translate the ideas into secondary examples if
needed.)
B.
When do you want us to offer more training? (2 hours after school, 4 hours
on a Saturday, ...)
C.
Briefly discuss what the
training Librarians would like for us to provide for clerical assistants
Closure: Ask new Librarians to share their observations. What sticks
out in their minds?
Goals for the year:
Focus
for 2004-2005 school year:
1.
Librarians will become better teachers and better Librarians
through the district initiative of designing and delivering quality
lessons. Librarians will be taught to be better teachers through
professional development on campus and supported by professional
development at Librarian meetings. Library Information Services staff
will deliver examples of better lesson design and delivery using the
essentials of a good Librarian as content.
2.
Librarians will become better teachers and better Librarians
through follow-up visits and “walk-throughs” by Library
Information Services staff. Each Librarian can expect to be visited by a
Library Information Services staff member at least 3 times each
semester. Library Information Services staff will be looking to see if
the Librarians are doing the essentials of a good teacher and Librarian.
Library Information Services staff will send an e-mail after each
visit to identify the essentials saw and make suggestions for more
essential implementation.
3.
Librarians are to focus on collaborating with teachers to integrate,
to a greater degree, TEKS objectives in Science and Social
Studies areas. Opportunities for discussion and support from the
Administrators in these two areas will be made at Librarian professional
development meetings.
4.
Librarians will need to develop new and better lessons using more
technology, using collaborative planning with teachers, using design and
delivery lesson model, using TEKS, and using support from Library Information
Services professional development meetings including dividing up into
grade level teams to share lessons (etc... learn the strength of our
fellow Librarians).
|
