As the state tightens the budget many schools are making cuts anywhere they can. Sadly this means for many schools that their librarians are being cut. With the loss of the librarians, teachers loose a valuable resource. It is my hope to help bridge that gap for teachers until the budget crunch ahs settled and librarians are back in every school. As a school librarian at a K-12 school, I am among those cut. With how our economy is and my desire to stay in Michigan if at all possible, I have poured my knowledge and experience into these WebQuests. I am greatly concerned about the ability of teachers to maintain a high level of education for Michigan students as we face more and more cuts. It is evident from what we have seen this year that teachers will be asked to do more with less, so I am trying, through the WebQuests to provide teachers for a way to work smarter. Good education is a team effort, with the lack of a librarian on site as part of the team, it becomes the teacher’s responsibility to fulfill that role as well. That is where we come in. I am here to be your librarian. This is the first in my plans of library services that I will provide through our web site. I hope that my efforts to provide you with guided research correlated to the Michigan State GLCEs will relieve some of the additional strain the budget crunches are placing on you. I am happy to have any feedback on additional ways I can meet your needs as an educator through this site. Please let me know what is working and what you would like to see to make it work better for you.
As the state tightens the budget many schools are making cuts anywhere they can. Sadly this means for many schools that their librarians are being cut. With the loss of the librarians, teachers loose a valuable resource. It is my hope to help bridge that gap for teachers until the budget crunch ahs settled and librarians are back in every school. As a school librarian at a K-12 school, I am among those cut. With how our economy is and my desire to stay in Michigan if at all possible, I have poured my knowledge and experience into these WebQuests. I am greatly concerned about the ability of teachers to maintain a high level of education for Michigan students as we face more and more cuts. It is evident from what we have seen this year that teachers will be asked to do more with less, so I am trying, through the WebQuests to provide teachers for a way to work smarter. Good education is a team effort, with the lack of a librarian on site as part of the team, it becomes the teacher’s responsibility to fulfill that role as well. That is where we come in. I am here to be your librarian. This is the first in my plans of library services that I will provide through our web site. I hope that my efforts to provide you with guided research correlated to the Michigan State GLCEs will relieve some of the additional strain the budget crunches are placing on you. I am happy to have any feedback on additional ways I can meet your needs as an educator through this site. Please let me know what is working and what you would like to see to make it work better for you.