This has been a BUSY week. First, sadly we said good-bye to our media center paraprofessional as she moved to a new job (I wanted to add the reason quickly as I didn't want you think it was THAT sad of a good-bye). Our system will not keep media center parapros next year so she will not be replaced now. I'm sure my supervisor is glad that I need some time in the media center and will gladly help out with some checking out/in and shelving in there!
On Tuesday afternoon, I attended grade-level planning with my supervising media specialist. As the grade-level teachers talked about some upcoming activities - and the teachers' new iPads, the SLMS searched through the app store for some new apps that correlated. She found a great one that we were all excited about and I have already used in my own classroom this week - ShowMe. It's a whiteboard on the iPad - yes, there are plenty of those - BUT this one records everything you write/draw on it AND the audio - so, I had a group of my kids today conduct their own "number talk" while it recorded their drawings and conversation. It was great to have them on-task and I was able to go back and know exactly what they said and did.
Wednesday afternoon, we met and worked through the school media center evaluation rubric. That thing is crazy long - ten pages! Some of the items were easy to figure out. Some were more difficult. And sadly (or more frustratingly) some had to be marked basic, but had nothing to do with anything the media specialist can control. She can't help being assigned to extra duties on a daily basis that move an area to basic! It was very eye-opening. Guess, in the classroom, I'm accustomed to being solely responsible for my own annual evaluations - I control what is taught, displayed, and how students are handled (now, I can't control their actions all the time!), but several aspects of the media program eval cannot be controlled at all by the SLMS: square footage of the media center, network connections, fixed/flexible scheduling, outside duties, etc.
We're out of school next week, which after as crazy as this one has been...I think is a really good thing!
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