I went back to BRE and spend half of my time going over the DOE Rubric for media centers. The media specialist and I agreed that they are proficient in most areas. However, they are some areas that are questionable due to a lot of teachers' unwillingness to fully accept the media specialist as an instructional partner. As we discussed the rubric, we came up with a lot of possibilities for an action plan for improving the media center.
As things are wrapping up, we continue to talk about how I can assist her in introducing new technologies. This is important because many of the teachers are "old-school"; they look at the media center as a place to check out rather than a place where they can find resources to help them with their own instruction on meia and information literacy.
We did talk about creating some screencasts that would help the media specialist reach more students. One area that we also discussed was how the media specialist should keep track of media literacy with regard to classes that come to her for instruction. We thought it might be a good idea to create individual skill assessment folders to help her keep track of each student.
Completing this rubric satisifies by requirement, both in the area of hours as well as assignments to be completed as part of my portfolio. Now I have to get the final pieces put together and placed in the portfolio.
I will return to the media center on Thursday with my group of arts to illustrate the third graders book reviews and jackets.
2.5 hours
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