Media Specialist Interview

     Well, let me start off by saying our media specialist was JUST hired. I felt a little bad about badgering her with questions already! She has ten years of experience in an elementary school, but this will be her first in a middle school. She is still getting to know our school, and what she has to offer for the teachers. Many of the procedures and polices for the library are yet to be determined. The poor lady had a lot of reorganizing and library "first aid" to take care of first. I did, however, have a great chat with her. I think she will do a fantastic job!

    Basically, one of the most important and effective  ways the library can help ELA teachers is by offering book talks. I am going to do book talks in my class as well, but I don't think you can too many. I think it's especially important that students hear about how great reading can be from a variety of people. I think we will visit the library as a class bi-weekly, and she will doing a book talk that correlates with what I'm teaching each time. How awesome is that?

    I also learned that all of our books sets (new ones we received this year and older ones) were all added to the library and we will check them out as class sets there. Before, they were in stuck in someone's classroom and we didn't have to actually "check them out".

 One thing that I was really excited about was when I asked her how she can help our students and she said she wanted to find their "fire" in reading. She said her ultimate goal is to help students use their interests to find a book they absolutely love. This is exactly what I tell my students every year... if the media specialist and I have the same goal for our students, we are bound to make a great team!

 I hope this information doesn't seem too limited, but again, she only started last week. I am glad that we had the interview though, because it looks like we have an EXCELLENT addition to our staff this year!