Scheduling Systems.

Scheduling Class Time/Place
During my student teaching placement, I learned how to use scheduling charts to organize time available for all the resources (including myself) that our patrons had access to. We had a weekly lab chart, a weekly stage chart, a weekly LMC chart, a weekly LMS chart, a weekly LM Student Teacher chart (which was for me), and a weekly mini-lab chart that teachers could access and add their names to anytime they wanted to reserve those resources during particular times for their classes. The system worked out pretty well. For my own future middle school LMP, I would make as many of those schedules online as possible so that everyone could easily access them. I spent a lot of time running back and forth through the building retrieving schedules because I often forgot to take schedules with me when collaborating, so having all of those resources available to everyone on the school website or grading program would have saved some time.

Scheduling Volunteers
Because I student taught in two elementary schools, we did not have student volunteers. In a middle school, I would want to have a few student volunteers, as well as parents and other community members. Therefore, I would have a schedule for all my volunteers in addition to all the other schedules. I think I would have one schedule for my student volunteers and another schedule for my adult volunteers. This way, especially if I did not have an aide, I would be able to organize my time to utilize my volunteers in the most efficient and effective way.

Scheduling the Year
At the beginning of the year, I would look at my goals for the year and split them up so that, as the year progressed, I would be working on certain goals at certain times of the year. An example of this is in The School Library Media Manager, by Blanche Woolls, on page 106. I think this would really help me because I would have a plan for any time when I found myself having nothing immediate to do. This would maximize my effectiveness, raise my credibility, and give me a tool to reflect with at the end of the year.

Curriculum and Unit Schedule - Oshkosh Area School District
As the LMS, it will be essential for me to not only know and understand the curriculum, but also the schedule for when which curricular items will be taught. while this Oshkosh Area School District does not say expressly when teachers should be teaching which concepts, the benchmarks are on this particular page. If I cannot find the schedule on my own, I could use the curriculum benchmarks as a start and then build up relationships with teacher to find out when they will teach certain concepts. This particular method is what I had to do during my student teaching placement, and while it took a lot of my time, it turned out to be most effective and led to positive learning experiences for my students.