Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a Librarian in a school setting? What does your day look like? What do you do? How do you Reach Students. For my new post, I was able to speak to four different librarians from my school district and here is what they had to say! Happy Reading from Mrs. DeLavan..
Every Librarian has AASL standards that must be addressed in their library during the school year just like teachers. Here are four shared foundations I am going to address through my interviews.
The first one is COLLABORATE! INTERVIEW #1
I was so excited to meet up with Lessie Bernshouse from Millwood Elementary school in Sumter, South Carolina. She has been a librarian for eight years and has been in education for twelve years. I talked to Mrs. Bernshouse about how she collaborates in her school with her teachers, students and staff.
Mrs. Bernshouse talked about how she has created many forms such as google forms, padlets for her students to reach out with ideas about what they would like to see in the library. With her teachers, she tries to meet with grade levels to think and work together in a collaboration of ideas to form one main goal for projects, research and reading. Pre Covid, Mrs. Bernshouse would have meetings before the classes began to work on building relationships. Within this morning meeting, library lessons are set to strengthen a skill set that the teacher has requested more support for.
With Covid19 being a different mind set at school, Mrs. Bernshouse has set several collaboration goals that she is hoping to implement. She wants to provide tutorial videos on different tools that she thinks would be beneficial for teachers and students. Also she is going to try and provide tutorial videos on different tools for teachers they may not have time to research due to the overwhelming part of their job teaching virtually and face to face.
Mrs. Bernshouse has collaborated this year with two fourth grade teachers on padlet and how to use flipgrid with stories. She has provided each teacher a google form with things they may be interested in learning about.
Her main collaboration she says each year (in a normal year) is collaborating with students and asking their input on purchases in the library. She sends out surveys and ask them what they want to read about the next. She also ask them at the end of the year what changes could be made to make the library program better the following year. I thought this was an excellent idea on collaborations and will use this for my library.
