<div dir="ltr">Hi Kathy,<div><br></div><div>First, thanks for reading my whole long email! </div><div><br></div><div>8th Grade does no research for the entire year. There is no 8th grade research except for the 40 kids that are in our accelerated classes. The previous librarian supervised kids and checked out materials and that was it. No one in the science group was willing to put themselves out there. I met with everyone at the end of last year.</div><div><br></div><div>There really was not an opportunity to tie it into any planning in any group's curriculum so I thought that having them exposed to the content was more important than just doing nothing. Also, I am on the teacher danielson so I had to have an assessable lesson (not ideal). There is no requirement for "lessons" but I try to tie stuff in with the calendar like banned book week and poetry month. </div><div><br></div><div>I am afraid that if I address this with the teacher, I will lose all of 8th grade. :(</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:15 PM Kathy Wickline via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dawn,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">First, your treatment by a fellow professional is deplorable. Before going to your admin, I would meet with the teacher.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Secondly, were these lessons taught in conjunction with students using the information for databases, citations, and validating websites? I definitely believe students won't retain this information unless they are being asked to apply it. Remember the old four-step approach: Tell, Show, Do, Apply. Once the teachers and students apply what you have shown, then your lessons will be valuable to them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Last of all, if the eighth grade isn't doing any research this semester, then research as your goal is probably not the goal for this semester. Are you required to have weekly lessons with the ELA classes?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I remember starting out and finding one or two teachers with whom I felt I could successfully work. We came up with projects that went with their curriculum and then after other teachers saw this, they were willing to work with me, too. I found the social studies and science teachers were very open because they don't have to stick so closely to Common Core, so I started with them. After all, they can have their students complete research, too.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="'arial black', sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Kathy Wickline</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Unity Junior High Librarian</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Tolono, IL</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000"><a href="mailto:wicklinek@unity.k12.il.us" target="_blank">wicklinek@unity.k12.il.us</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @ujhslibrary</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:04 AM Dawn Scuderi via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I could really use some advice.....</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div>7th Grade does research at the second half of the year.</div><div>8th Grade ELA does NO research</div><div>8th Grade Science (only our highest kids) do research for the science fair.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Advice? Should I go to my admin? I feel like the level of disrespect is painful. </div><div><br></div><div>They want to meet with me to have me alter my calendar to better meet their curriculum...</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>HELP,</div><div>Dawn </div></div>
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