1. Elementary Library Program 2012 – 2013

2. Our Mission:
“Is to Inspire and equip all students to continuously acquire and apply knowledge and skills while pursuing their dreams and enriching the lives of others” –Warsaw Community Schools Strategic Plan

3. What does an ideal library look like?
What should a graduating sixth grade student know?
What does this mean for the librarian?

4. Job Description

5. Job Description

6. Job Description

7. Job Description

8. Flex Schedule
-Flexible scheduling of the library provides no formal schedule.
-Students can come and check out materials whenever they need to.
-Instruction relies on the librarian collaborating with the classroom teacher.
-This flexibility allows the librarian and teacher to work in-depth with students rather than just once every week.
-Students from a particular class or grade level may come down for several days in a row to work on a unit, and then it may be a few weeks before they are back for the next project.

9. Flex Schedule
-On a flex schedule the librarian must be the “proactive element” that goes out to work with teachers.
-The librarian needs to attend collaboration times with the teachers and find ways that they can work together.
-50% of elementary libraries use a variation of the flex schedule including Southwest Allen County Schools in Fort Wayne.
-SACS has been using this type of schedule for the last ten years with non-certified librarians.
-A flexible schedule library can accommodate many classes at the same time doing different things including research, selecting books, and recreational reading.

10. Flex Schedule: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 9:00 9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
1:00
1:30
2:30
3:00
3:30

11. Flex Schedule Calendar
-Keep the calendar in a central location so teachers and staff have easy access to it
-Make sure teachers talk with you when signing up to do projects
-Send out a explaining how teachers and staff can sign up for time in the library
-Send out a daily to the staff of the classes scheduled for the library the next day and additional openings.

13. Standards: AASL

14. Common Core Standards

15. Collaboration
-Attend collaboration times with each grade level or set a time to meet with them (a flex schedule allows for this).
-Actively seek out opportunities to work with teachers on projects or lessons in their classroom or in the library by talking to them at lunch, in the hallway, during school duties, in the mailroom, or in the workroom.
-Work with and support the computer lab tech.
-Keep track of all your collaborations using the collaboration form including classroom visits, projects, reading time, and classes coming to the library to check out books.

16. Part Two: Research and Resources

17. Research: Big 6 Review
Step One: Task Definition –”What is the Topic of your
project?” (Use I Wonder Form)
Step Two: Seeking Strategies – “Where can you look
for information?
Step Three: Location and Access – “Was this a good
source of information? (Reference Sheet)
Step Four: Use of Information (Note taking of facts
stored in envelops or folder and exit slips)
Step Five: Synthesis – “What is your final project?”
Step Six: Evaluation (Student form and Teacher form)

18. Databases: Inspire Kids Search
-What is a database?
-Several search options including:
-full text
-subject area
-lexile / reading level
-pathfinder activity
-Positive of flex schedule

19. Professional Websites
-website evaluation (professional vs. personal)
-”Does it have a sponsor?”
-”How is a database different than a website?”

20. Pathfinders

21. Pathfinders

22. Closing -Monthly meeting schedule -Visitation schedule -Questions
-Requests for professional development