Finale

Well, I feel that I have gained more of an understanding on my ALAR project. I was able to locate several articles through the library and several websites have helped for me to continue my research towards my product.

Because of conflicting schedules and other classes, I had difficulty in communicating with my literature circle group, but we made the most of the time we did have together. I decided to create a power-point of my strategy. I focused on the text readings, the articles that I read, and discussion with other Media Specialists. Within the PowerPoint presentation I also included several activities and strategies that would allow for more communication with the family members and the community, I also presented some challenges that may arise with implementing these activities.

Truly, form my readings, this is truly an objective that needs to be enforced in all school media centers. Of course, we all know that communication is essential between all faculty at the school, but in order to increase literacy and make the media center an important place we need to focus that communication to the families and the school community. I look forward to seeing how my strategy will tie into all of the other presentations tomorrow.

more research . . . .

This weeks research and reading really helped me to emphasize the importance of having a media center program that opens the doors not only to the students but to the parents as well. I really appreciated the chapter in school reform that focused on family literacy. This also ties into my ALAR strategy "Communication with the family members and the community memebers". I thought the definition of what family literacy was very beneficial to both communicate with family members and friends of the library. It states - to make sustainable changes in a family by integrating activities and training parents to teach literacy at home. Some of the ideas that were suggestesd were open houses, poetry night, field trips to the poublic library and,literacy nights. These were all great ways for the Media Center to be a pertinant place in the schools community. Also these events allowed for everyone to become involved. All of these topics were easily incorporated into the plan of my strategy.