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Collaboration
Strategies
Stages of Collaboration
- Cooperation - The Library Media Specialist is primarily a provider of resources as requested. No co-teaching, co-planning, or co-assessment is involved.
- Coordination - The Library Media Specialist is primarily a provider of resources and teaches minimal introductory how to use the library lessons. No co-planning and no co-assessment.
- Collaborative - The Library Media Specialist plans, develops materials, teaches, and evaluates student work and the overall project collaboratively with the classroom teacher.
Source: The Information-Powered School, Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Anne Wheelock, editors, 2002.
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Collaboration Examples
Indiana Department of Education Streaming Video
(scroll down near the bottom for projects)
3rd Grade Baseball Project
Plan Sheet
Research Grid
Baseball Hall of Fame Website Websearch
Final Product - PowerPoint
Search Strategy
Search Strategy
Rubric
State Research Project
Plan Sheet
Plan Sheet (blank)
Standards to Use in Collaboration
Indiana Academic Standards Correlated with Information Literacy Standards
National Education Technology Standards - For Students
Tools
Collaboration Logs
Completed Log / Blank Log - North Elementary, Noblesville, Indiana
Completed Log / Blank Log - Perry Meridian Middle School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Excel Spreadsheets to Organize Data from Collaboration Logs
Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet
Rubric for Designing a Form
Rubrics for Collaborative Plan Sheets - from Indiana Learns Website
Analyze and Explain
Which teachers work with you? Which Don't?
Can you show what the students you have worked with have learned?
Can you show how much work both you and the teacher have put into the project?
Can you align what you are doing with the Indiana Academic Standards?
Promote
Share your success stories in your newsletter and emails.
Use the collaborated lesson to show another teacher how the process works.
Prove to other teachers that by working together you made a big project work because you had TWO teachers working together.
Collecting the Data: Templates and Resources for the School Library Media Specialist
was created with an Educate Indiana Grant from the Indiana Department of Education.
(c) 2002, McGriff, Preddy, and Harvey.
Permission is granted for individual library media professionals to use the templates to collect data in their building; All other uses require permission of the copyright holders.
| Nancy S. McGriff, School Librarian South Central School Corporation Union Mills, Indiana |
Leslie B. Preddy, School Librarian Perry Meridian Middle School Indianapolis, Indiana |
Carl A. Harvey II, School Librarian |
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