[aisle] Students can't visit the library

Pulgar, Christine cpulgar at npd117.net
Sun Aug 30 18:00:30 CDT 2020


Hi Linda,

I am in a 2-5 building and we are doing in person instruction as well.  Our
district pushed back our students' start time and made the first period of
the day the plan for ALL teachers.  During specials, (PE, Art, Music and
Library)  we are presenting remotely from our own spaces into the classroom
via Google Meet.   The teacher's role is to "co-teach" during our lesson by
providing tech support as needed and relaying student questions to us.  We
went from 42 minute periods to 30. Last week was rough, but not
impossible.  We are all certainly showing how flexible we can be!

Due to our small "presenting" space, the size of our chromebooks ect, I am
struggling to find the best way to read LIVE to students in way that's not
weird or awkward.   Since I share my library, and I am never alone, I am
unable to take off mask when reading a book to students.  Because of that
limitation (and because our remote students do not attend specials
synchronously)  I had already planned to pre-record my stories for students
to either stream through the teachers' computers or directly on their own
devices (still working that part out), but perhaps recording your read
alouds ahead of time and scheduling those for the last part of class may
help. I try to do a 20 minute literacy or tech lesson for the first part of
class and end with the read aloud. I can also touch base with teachers to
troubleshoot any tech issues they are having, at that time too.

Good luck!

Christine Pulgar
Reader. Teacher. Librarian. – MLIS; NBCT
Glen Oaks School
Hickory Hills, IL 60457
708-233-6806
cpulgar at npd117.net
https://twitter.com/CpulgarNBCT
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 5:17 PM Linda Sawyer via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My school is starting tomorrow with full-time in person learning. In the
> past I have had 40 minute weekly dedicated periods with K-4 students. I
> spent 20 minutes reading or doing library skills instruction for them and
> then they would browse the stacks and check out books. This year I lost my
> library space as it is now an 8th grade classroom. I will need to be an
> "instacart" librarian delivering books to the classrooms. I am advocating
> that my time for K-2 be decreased to 20 mins as that is about as long as
> their attention span can take and then I will have more time to get back to
> the library with their "library orders" and fill those orders and deliver
> them later in the day.  My principal is trying to figure out how I could do
> just 20 instead of 40 min as my time with the class gives the teacher their
> lunch or a planning period. I am wondering if any of you are in a similar
> spot and how you are tackling this. One idea I had was to split the 40 min.
> period with the social worker who could do SEL with the kiddos in the 2nd
> half of the period.
>
> thanks,
> Linda
>
> Linda Zeilstra Sawyer
> School Librarian/Information Specialist
> St. Francis Xavier School
> 808 Linden Ave, Wilmette, IL 60091
> (847) 256-0644
>
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