[aisle] library and testing- help!

[Joni Darby]

I have a flexible schedule and do alternate site testing for IAR. I have to
proctor the students who need to take the test in a different location per
accommodations.  I wasn't sure about it at first, but it has been fine.
This year it will only be for three days so that's a plus.

 As long as it's not all year long, it would be ok for a short time. Most
of our make-ups are in the computer lab. The teacher will have to do them
this year as they are taking them on iPads.

Hope it works out for you.  The constant advocacy and convincing others
what we do does get old. Hang in there and hope your new principal is a
library supporter!

Joni Darby

Shepherd Middle School
Librarian
Ottawa Elementary 141




On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:07 AM Karrie Fisher via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> In my previous school j-- also a small private school -- the study hall
> teachers administered the make-up tests.  There was a box that traveled
> from study hall to study hall, and inside the box was the testing teachers'
> folders. (Teachers had to fetch or drop off the box to the next person.)
> So if Susie came into D block study hall to take a testt for Ms. America,
> the study hall teacher had it ready and in the appropriate folder.  When
> Susie was done taking the test, it went back into the teacher's folder.  It
> was the sole responsibility of the teachers to put the tests in the folder
> and pick them up.
>
> It was easy and it spread the responsibility.  I had a study hall assigned
> to me, so during that study hall I only proctored tests during that time.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Happily Ever After,
>
> Karrie Fisher
> Teacher Librarian
> Library Media Specialist
>
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>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:42 AM Lala Lala via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in a small, private high school. Giving tests is not in my contract,
>> nor my title. However, we are small and there is no one testing person.
>> Teachers and administrators want me to be the Testing location and person.
>> Unfortunately, without my consent, my office in the library was turned into
>> the Testing Location, although it is not staffed by me. It is open during
>> the lunch period and after school.
>>
>> My problem is, many students need to make up tests during class time that
>> they missed. Or students who have an "alternate location" accommodation
>> don't have anywhere to take it.
>>
>> I am really pushing back on this because, if I don't, I will become the
>> testing person and location and what little planning time I have (I have a
>> flexible schedule)- will cease to exist.
>>
>> However, I also want to be seen as a helpful and accommodating colleague.
>>
>> A teacher just raised her voice at me regarding this issue- she is a
>> Department Chair and on the only influential committee in our school (of
>> which I am not, although I have asked). She said there is no other place-
>> except the hallway. Of course, I want to have students' best interest at
>> heart - I am just torn.
>>
>> What does your school do? Any advice? Should I just suck it up and be
>> what the school  needs me to be? (It is just that it's, obviously,
>> distracting to supervise a student testing, when I need to concentrate on
>> my work). I am just feeling deflated.
>>
>>
>> Lori
>>
>> --
>> Lori McGreal
>> Trinity High School librarian
>> lmcgreal at trinityhs.org
>> 1-708-453-9340
>>
>>
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