Structure+of+library~Rockton+140

=The Structure of a School Library =  Please fill in as many as you feel comfortable answering. 

School name:Whitman Post Elementary District number and name:Rockton School District 140 Regional Office of Education:KIDS Grades in your school:3-5 Number of FTE certified librarians with media endorsement:1 at SMMS, our middle school; RGS, our grade school, has FTE certified teacher; and WPES, our elementary (my school), is part time, certified teacher (FTE is Full Time Equivalent) Number of FTE assistant librarians:3 Fixed schedule or flexible or combination:fixed Number of different classes you see each week:23 (and since I am part time I teach these 23 classes in 3 days...not much time to do much else!) How often do you see each class:I see them each once per week for instruction, and they come back a second time for check-out Number of minutes for each class:each time a class comes to the lib it is for 40 minutes How is library class time arranged: (lesson? check-out? read aloud? silent read?) Instruction time is either read-aloud or instruction time consisting of library skills/genres/book talks/content related to classroom content. Check-out time consists of checkout and silent read time. If you do teach lessons, is there a curriculum you follow?No, but I really wish there were! If there is a curriculum, how was it developed?I would love to hear how this has worked for other districts! I like the ISAIL as areference, but would really like to see a scope and sequence. Link to curriculum? Do you actively collaborate with teachers?Yes. This is only my second year in the library and I am making it a priority to mirror classroom content in the library as much as I can. Also, genres has been an area of weakness on MAPS and ISATs, so I am trying to fill that gap. Say anything about your collaboration that you wish: Your responsibilities? ordering, processing, teaching, etc....?Ordering, teaching, keeping budget, grant writing, lesson planning. My assistant does the checkin checkout process and processes the materials. Other comments:I am wanting to re-structure my position a bit, so all of this info is very helpful to me. Thank you! Also, I am currently enrolled in the IT program through NIU and loving it! Date this form was filled out:September 29, 2009 Filled out by:Kelly Baumgartner 