Are you Swamped Be a Delegator

1
Are you Swamped? Be a Delegator!

• Design Team
• Donna Ahlrich, Charmaine Broe-Mackenzie, Jim
  Brown, Tiffany Davis, Jennifer Duncan, and Emily
  Nichols

2
Problem

• The school library media specialist feels
  overwhelmed by the duties of teaching information
  literacy skills, being an information specialist,
  and working as an instructional consultant.
  Volunteers want to help, but are not fully
  utilized by the media specialist. If the media
  specialist continues to try to micro-manage the
  media center, fatigue and burn-out are
  inevitable.

3
Goals

• The learner will understand the purpose,
  importance and benefit of delegation.
• The learner will identify duties that can be
  delegated to volunteers.

4
Objective

• Given time to reflect after the brainstorming
  session and the group discussion in the classroom
  setting, the learner will list and identify at
  least 2-4 duties that can be delegated to other
  individuals.

5
Learner Analysis

• Adult learners
• Post-Graduate education
• Highly motivated
• Capable of abstract thinking
• High language and communication skills
• All participants possess basic knowledge of the
  media center and its procedures
• All participants have experience working or
  volunteering in the media center.

6
Assessment

• Determine if the learner can list and identify
  2-4 duties that can be delegated.
• Determine whether the learners came away from the
  lesson with an appreciation for the benefits of
  delegating duties to volunteers.
• Determine whether the learners are reflecting on
  additional duties to add to the distributed list.

7
Lesson Development

• Attention will be gained through a brainstorming
  and sorting activity using post-it notes.
• Learners will be asked to consider which of the
  brainstormed tasks should be delegated or
  retained.
• A door prize will be awarded to the participant
  with the most delegated tasks.
• The instructor will lead a group discussion
  concerning the placement of tasks.
• A Power Point presentation showing the group
  mascot, Della-the-Gator will be shown to
  re-motivate.
• Hand-outs will be given to promote transfer.

8
Hand-Outs Provided

• A cover sheet with workshop theme
• A list of media center duties and
  responsibilities
• Jobs for possible delegation list
• Jobs suggested for retention by Media Specialist
• Copy of the Library Bill of Rights
• Copy of AUP for volunteers

9
Implementation

• This instruction took place in room 1910 at the
  Gwinnett University Center.
• The instructors had access to a white board,
  laptop with internet access, and projection
  equipment.

10
Evaluation

• Each learner will participate in a one-on-one
  interview after the lesson takes place. This
  interview will help the instructors evaluate the
  lesson effectiveness and determine what worked
  and what did not.

11
Next Steps

• The interview results were discussed and
  lesson revisions were made based on the feedback.
  Some possible changes include
• Instructor modeling of task sorting activity.
• Written assessment for learners.