We are in the midst of training a fairly large group of public service associates and specialist to do storytimes. Mostly so that there are "back-ups" at all the branches in case the main storytime person can't be there. That way we are not constantly sending people from the Valley to go out to do them, which makes it tight here.
I have been mentoring four of the newbies to storytime. It has been a great experience to do some training, observing, and giving feedback about one of my passions--storytime and early learning! Because each new storytime presenter needs to present an actual storytime it has been easiest on the schedule to just have the newbie "take over" my regularly scheduled storytime. So, in other words, I haven't done many actual storytimes this summer--which is a bummer, but like I said, it's been good to help others "catch the vision" of storytime--it's so much more that just reading a few books!! I've tried to stress the "whys" behind the "hows".
I have also observed several newbies whose mentor wasn't able to observe their storytime.
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