Feeling pressure - have to do assessments and write reports for ESL students already - have a maternity leave teacher leaving in 3 weeks - have a number of students in her class - only just feeling confident that they have made some progress since the beginning of the year. Have 33 students to report on.
Felt relief at getting assig 1 finished - not feeling confident in the result - having so much difficulty in handling all that is going on and feeling a lack of confidence.
I think one of the concerns is the utter lack of interest in the library as a working environment - it seems to be just a leisure/quiet reading place - teachers do not use the library for study nor the computer lab. The lab in particular is timetabled for one hour per week per class and often I witness it being used as a semi-release time for the teacher. The IT bloke provides support but it is more like turorship on his part!
Frustration at the fact that almost all of information I am reading (trying to) about information literate students and infor lit school communitites, is not practised here. I am one of the teachers supplying release - 0.5 in the library - I have to programme and plan - a few teachers just don't understand my role and that I am actually delivering lessons about literacy - they just don't see beyong their hour of release from their class. Have managed to get it through to one that I am not there to do exchanges of classroom readers for her class. Lack of care of books of all kinds, periodicals, posters, IT equipment and resources in general is just astonishing - both some of the children and some of the teachers.
There must be light at the end of the tunnel but I don't see it yet - and not here methinks.
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