Learning to TeachA Year in iQuest

My goal: To learn how to teach children of all ages, about child development, and how to work in a library.

A Typical Day

Sign in at the office

Do something random until a class comes in (adding, weeding, inventory...)

“Quiet start”

Lesson

Total number of books: 7,500- about 63% done: 4,700 to go

- student body: 500

Mary McLeod BethuneOne of the first African American teachers, went to Moody Bible College, and taught in South Carolina

missionary in Africa

met Eleanor Roosevelt

In her will she wrote, “I leave you LOVE; I leave you HOPE; I leave you a thirst for EDUCATION; I leave you racial DIGNITY; I leave you a DESIRE to live harmoniously with your fellow men; I leave you finally, a RESPONSIBILITY to our young people.”

Love the blogs! <http://www.petunia-bennett.blogspot.com/>

Weeding?

MUSTIE: Misleading, Ugly, Superseded,

Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere

Child DevelopmentAll in all I got to work with 2 different classes of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th graders

1st graders are easily entertained - alphabet books.

1st & 2nd graders still believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus, so fantasy genre can be confusing

March: 1st graders, Jack & Peter and Anna & Jane

5th graders - Veteran’s Day.

Lesson Planning

In 5 years: I will have graduated from

And will be hopefully working as a journalist or teacher

10 years...

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do,

cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

- Will Smith in “Just the Two of Us”