Responsibility?
We don't need no stinkin' responsibility
WORK
by Deb Stender
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Helping students learn to take responsibility for their school and their community spaces, one shelf at a timeLoading...
When you ask students to do something, do you hear thisProblem 1:
Students grumbling that I’m making them do my job
Problem 2:
Students can’t locate books despite repeated lessons and ample signage
Bottom shelf neglect - need to up circulation
Shelves are a mess due to:
1. Partially my lack of time
2. Partially After-school Program's lack of responsibility
Students grumbling that I’m making them do my job
Problem 2:
Students can’t locate books despite repeated lessons and ample signage
Bottom shelf neglect - need to up circulation
Shelves are a mess due to:
1. Partially my lack of time
2. Partially After-school Program's lack of responsibility
Solution:
Adopt-a-Shelf
Students in Grade 4 choose one fiction shelf.
Students in Grades 5 and 6 choose one fiction shelf. Two weeks later, they choose one nonfiction shelf.
Their job: put their shelf/shelves in shelf order.
My tasks:
1. Make and print out shelf lists, by specific shelf. Blank space for checking off, title, author, call number. Header includes shelf range, student name, and teacher, with blank space for writing these in.
2. Label the shelves after the students have picked them.
3. Keep a running list of who has what shelf when someone moves their stickers.
4. Check their shelves after the class is gone, to see how they’ve done.
5. Determine who has Shelf of the Week, hang the medal, put article in school newspaper.
6. Update shelf lists when new books are cataloged.
1. Make and print out shelf lists, by specific shelf. Blank space for checking off, title, author, call number. Header includes shelf range, student name, and teacher, with blank space for writing these in.
2. Label the shelves after the students have picked them.
3. Keep a running list of who has what shelf when someone moves their stickers.
4. Check their shelves after the class is gone, to see how they’ve done.
5. Determine who has Shelf of the Week, hang the medal, put article in school newspaper.
6. Update shelf lists when new books are cataloged.