Last Lesson...

Last Lesson...

This is my last day with my clinical supervising librarian and I am teaching one last time.  I decided to help some of the Social Studies teachers who had came to the librarian earlier in the week for help with research papers they were beginning to write.  Some questions came to mind as to what I could do with these students to help prepare them for research papers and to meet them where their teachers had left off.  I wanted to make sure that this experience was not for them to just complete a task, but to learn and grow more than they thought they could.

The teachers had already explained what the assignment was and each child had a particular even to research.  I was able ahead of time to lay out materials for easy access for the students and let them know where I had pulled these references from.  Since alot of the material was reference material, it could not be checked out from the library, only used while in the library.  I soon found that many students need the same books, so we were able to group the students with their rightful group.  I definitly learned that classroom management was a key factor in helping so many students work in an area using the same books and trying to read and take notes.  

After the class had dismissed back to their classroom, I reflected on how well this lesson worked and what I would change about the lesson, the next time I used it.  I felt that the students were engaged in their assignment, which is a plus.  I did feel that more material would have been better for them.  So, in the future I think that I would set this research up in a computer lab that had tables in the middle.  This way students could be researching on the computer as well through the reference material that was brought from the library.