[CALIBK12] library discipline

[Darla Brown]

Hi Mary: In my experience, it is NOT common practice to excuse the teachers from the library while you are working with their classes. It is the teacher's job to maintain order-not yours. The library is your classroom, and you are there to teach the students library skills and help them choose books and read them. It sounds like your principal has you acting as a simple baby-sitter. Just say NO!

From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Rasmussen
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:57 AM
To: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] library discipline

Help!  I am at a K-6 school that has set blocks of time for each classroom to weekly visit the library for 40 minutes.  It gives the teachers a free period which they naturally cherish.  I am struggling to maintain order with the fifth and sixth grade classes.  The library is small (classroom size) with three student computers.  With 32 students, it is difficult to help one child and still maintain order.  I have tried rewards, but at that age they would rather socialize than stay quiet for a small prize.  I have put them out of the library which is outside, but the weather now is wet.  The teachers say "send them back to class", but when I do the teachers are seldom there and they come back or worse wonder around campus.  Writing them up and sending them to the office seems excessive.  I love this site and know someone out there has just the answer for me.  Help!


Mary Rasmussen
Vessels School
5900 Cathy Avenue
Cypress, CA  90630
714-893-4695
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