Instructional Partner

Instructional Partner
September 27- October 3
I was able to explore my role as instructional partner this week. I helped a teacher in first grade set routines,procedures, and integrate curriculum. It was challenging and exhausting but very worthwhile and rewarding. I realized that I do have strength in this area in indentifying areas that can be improved both in my own teaching and others. Some of it comes natural to me and I don't mean that in a bad way but to say that I realized the need for this kind of help in the school. Even fantastic teachers do not have the time or knowledge of the great tools at their disposal that can help engage student learning and aide in their planning processes. I was able to suggest websites and games to help during the computer rotation and explain how to search for other quality ones. I was also able to model how to incorporate strategic read alouds to serve as reading pleasure during snack time and teach the weekly comprehension skill or connect to a science/social studies concept.

This really gave me confidence and excitement in my future abilities to do this type of collaboration as a library media specialist.