Making Students Active Participants in the Success of the School Library
One of my future goals and reason for taking this course is
I aspire to be a Library Media Specialist someday. From this course as well as
the others I have taken early on in this program, I have learned a lot about
school library media specialists. The position is not clear cut and a Library
Media Specialist must wear many hats. Not only are you in charge of what goes
on within your setting of the library, but sometimes you must visit other
classrooms and perform other tasks around the building. In some schools library
is its own pull out class, scheduled for say 45 minutes. Yet, in other schools
students are able to use the library on a drop in basis in order to obtain research
and write papers. Whatever the case may be the library is a very important part
of a successful school.
Before I drag on too long about the importance of a library,
I am writing this entry to inform the reader about an idea I have if I am ever
to be in charge of a library whether it be at the elementary or middle school
level. I feel it is important to make students feel involved, with that said I
want to discuss the idea of having student helpers within the library. The
teacher will hold most of the responsibility, yet I want to create a list of
jobs the students can perform and either weekly or monthly. These jobs will be
arranged so that other students can have the opportunity to perform the tasks
that will keep the library running smoothly.
Some of the jobs will include: shelving books, checking
books in/out, keeping the library clean, computer assistant, book locating assistant,
and many more. The students will be active participants in the running of the
library. This will keep them involved and will help them to learn new things
about the library that they may have not picked up by simply visiting the
library once a week with their class. This may even help to peak the interest
of students at a young age and make them want to one day become Library Media
Specialists.
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