[aisle] 7th/8th Grade Research teacher pushback...

Dawn Scuderi scuderi.dawn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 11:03:56 CDT 2021


Hi All,

I could really use some advice.....

I am in my second year at a middle school.  As you all know, last year was
a train wreck for most libraries.  I was closed for 4 months at the start
of the year.  Many of last years 7th graders didn't get any library lessons
as I was pulled to teach in other parts of the building.

Last year, I met with ELA (the only users of the library in this district)
and they advised me 3 things about research content in their curriculum:
7th Grade does research at the second half of the year.
8th Grade ELA does NO research
8th Grade Science (only our highest kids) do research for the science fair.

When I had to create my professional goal with my admin, I chose to focus
on research.  I taught 3 lessons.  Databases, validating websites and
citations.  I see kids every 2 weeks for 40 minutes, and to accommodate
reading, I mixed in banned book discussion and narrative non-fiction
booktalks.

Now, there has been pushback from 8th Grade ELA who are sick of my
content.  One of them decided to not have students bring tech for my formal
eval because she wanted to have more time for checkout and not do the end
of my lesson (she knew it was my formal) and another talks to kids over my
lessons (about sports and non related stuff) and makes snarky and passive
aggressive comments during my lesson for the benefit of the students.  Now
students are starting to be disrespectful.

Advice?  Should I go to my admin?  I feel like the level of disrespect is
painful.

They want to meet with me to have me alter my calendar to better meet their
curriculum...

What do you think?

HELP,
Dawn
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