Re: [LM_NET] Honest Response Needed

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I know that it's always about student learning first, but I really don't like the 
fact that a large part of my job is teaching teachers.  I teach children AND 
adults, but no one ever wants to give me credit for the adult instruction I 
provide.  So, now I just think of it was icing on the cake.  Lucky for me I have 
many teachers who appreciate what I have taught them, and I have heard them exress 
gratitude in having "the most wonderful librarian ever!"  Yes, it is nice to hear 
those words.  Yes, of course, I teach students all the time; an average of 5 
classes per day on a flexible schedule.

Betsy Ruffin <Betsy.Ruffin@CLEBURNE.K12.TX.US> wrote:  It is interesting that this 
conversation should come up at this time. I had to sort out a bit of a 
misunderstanding with a teacher just this morning about my duties and who to talk 
to in regards my home base library (I am one of two certified librarians who 
oversee seven campuses). She said she felt that because I might be in the office 
and dealt a lot with technology issues that I was a technology person rather than a 
librarian. How she explains my emails to staff about book orders, new items in 
collection, and the like I don't know. 

I do like to collaborate and do so at the various campuses, but a lot of my job is 
behind-the scenes support, both in print issues and technology issues. As you can 
imagine, even with campuses split 3 and 4 between the two of us, there is still a 
lot of administrative stuff to do. That's not counting my dealing with AR and STAR 
as district coordinator and other district tech duties. 

When it comes right down to it, however, I would call myself an educator -- period. 
Whether I am teaching or supporting teaching, I am part of educating our students 
and that is the point of the whole process.

My two cents





Betsy Ruffin ;-)
librarian-technologist
Cleburne ISD 
Cleburne, TX
betsy.ruffin@cleburne.k12.tx.us 

Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all 
quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess 
with them.
-Michael Moore


It is the policy of Cleburne ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, 
national origin, gender or handicap in its school programs, services, or activities.


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        Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
  School Library Media Specialist
  Apple Creek Elementary
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





       
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