·         Target a few well respected teachers and develop one or two lessons tying together language arts and content area subjects like science and integrate into what classroom teachers are doing

·         Develop a form for teachers to fill out for major units allowing them to check off what they’d like – books, audiovisual, lessons in technology

·         Host before and after school mini meetings to showcase library resources and talk to teachers about what they’re doing

·         Give book talks to a grade level each week

·         Participate with teachers in PD and assist them with PD

·         Get copies of curriculum guides and become familiar with what classroom teachers are expected to teach

·         Talk with teachers to find out what they are doing – possibly start with one or two

·         Introduce some technology that teachers might not be able to do on their own

·         From Maureen Schlosser:  Do you have a technology specialist in your school? If so, you can share your schedule with them. That is what I do in our school, and our principal set the schedule up for me 5 years ago when she hired me. She wanted to make sure I had enough time to teach and take care of the library.   Here is how it works. Our library is a "special". All classes k-2 visit us for 42 minutes each week. I teach the morning classes, and the technology specialist teaches the afternoon classes. This frees me up in the afternoon to work with teachers and to work on cataloging, inventory, book orders, etc. It also frees the technology specialist up to collaborate with teachers in the morning. I have just a handful of teachers that I work with at this point. I look at what they are doing in Reading or in Social Studies or Science, and try to come up with some ideas that might interest them.

Thanks again!

Kate

Kate Candido

Library Media Specialist

Orange Avenue School

Milford, CT