Reflection 1
I think more than anything, the readings and class discussions have given me the language and vocabulary to voice thoughts about what a Media Center can and should be that I was lacking. Instead of setting up a meeting with a classroom teacher to show some of the databases and resources the library has because intuitively it feels right to me, I can look at Knapps’ teaching the teachers initiative at Wayne State (Thomas, Crow & Franklin, 2011) as a precedent. Rather than avoiding stand-alone library lessons because I don’t think they’re very effective, I can now point to research by Goodin and Kester that show the ineffectiveness of certain types of library skill instruction (Thomas, Crow & Franklin, 2011). While I won’t say I “enjoy” reading standards, it’s reassuring to know that thought has been put into what it is school librarians ought to be doing -- more specifically what we want the kids to be able to do. The MEMO standards and the AASL standards initially seemed too da