to contact Ms. Burman, please email me at: ruth_burman@waylandps.org
Mrs. Burman has a Master's Degree in Education/Library Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education. She is certified in both areas. Mrs. Burman loves teaching and the students at Claypit Hill inspire her daily!
The library program focuses on three areas: literary appreciation, information/media literacy, and lifelong learning.
Across grades K-5, students encounter a spiraling library curriculum with the purpose of developing independent readers, information seekers, and thoughtful media consumers.
Students interact with books, develop reading identiies, discover authors, genres, and topics, and learn to independently select books they want to read. Students learn how libraries work, and gradually become imdependent in locating, selecting, borrowing, and caring for materials.
Students learn to ask questions, search strategically, select useful sources, gather information and credit the work of others. Students learn that media is created by people for particular audiences and purposes. They gradually learn to recognize persuasion, evaluate claims and evidence, identify misinformation, and verify information.