2/25/16

Today was a pretty quiet day. When I first arrived Ms. Schell told me that their supervisor, Mary Keeling, was here observing Ms. Gratto’s media literacy class. They thought Ms. Keeling would stay all day, but after the class she gave Ms. Gratto some feedback and then left. Ms. Gratto and Ms. Schell spent some time explaining how Ms. Keeling visits each school library and how she supervises their work throughout the year. This is something I had not given much thought to, how the work of a school librarian is supervised not only by the school’s principal but also by the district’s library supervisor.

It is helpful to have a general idea of how things work, even though I know each school district may have a different approach.

Around mid morning I sat down and observe Ms. Schell give a lecture to 6^th graders about text features in non-fiction books. She gave a quick lecture on text features and the gave out a short form for the students to fill out where they had to list the text features they saw on 5 different non-fiction books. Ms. Schell had already piled non-fiction books on their tables, so they did not have to get up and walk around. The students seemed to enjoy the activity and they did the work quickly.

I also spent some time adding more of the new books that arrived yesterday to the library catalog. This is work I actually enjoy doing, it is very relaxing and it gives me some quiet time to work on my own.

Here is the form Ms. Schell had the students fill out: