Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships

Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships
Author: Kennedy, Kathryn
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466643625

Once considered designated storytellers, modern library professionals are emerging as experts in technology integration, information literacy, and curriculum alignment. Though, their collaboration with technology specialists and administrators continues to be a struggle. Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships brings together best practices and innovative technological approaches in establishing the media specialist-teacher partnership. Highlighting theoretical concepts of case based learning, knowledge repositories, and professional learning communities; this book is an essential practical guide for professional development specialists, administrators, library media specialists, as well as teacher educators interested in maintaining and developing collaborative instructional partnerships using emerging digital technologies.

Tasks Before Apps

Tasks Before Apps
Author: Monica Burns
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN: 1416624678

Educator and technology consultant Monica Burns shares strategies, tools, and insights that all teachers can use to effectively incorporate technology in the classroom.

Librarians and Educators Collaborating for Success

Librarians and Educators Collaborating for Success
Author: Marcia A. Mardis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440837511

The first in the IASL-Libraries Unlimited partnership series, this book features contributions written by authors from around the world about their effective collaboration experiences. Collaboration between teachers and school librarians is a topic that is often discussed in the quest for educational excellence, but the international perspective is something that is rarely explored. This text documents the collaboration endeavors in international school libraries and—drawing upon research and direct experience—demonstrates effective collaboration experiences in a range of countries. It also features selected brief case studies as well as several original essays on the topic of collaboration between teachers and teacher librarians in curriculum planning. The result of a joint effort between Libraries Unlimited and the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL), this book shows how collaboration with teachers looks in the international arena. It addresses topics such as collaborating for success with student searching, the roles of librarians and teachers in the research process, principal involvement, information literacy, inquiry-based learning, use of digital resources, models of collaboration for diversity, and evaluation of collaboration. Additionally, the current research findings presented will offer readers new insights into their profession.

Inquiry Learning Through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships

Inquiry Learning Through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships
Author: Violet H. Harada
Publisher: Linworth
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Provides guidance for building collaborations between library media specialists and teachers in teaching and curriculum planning, and includes models of inquiry-based learning projects for elementary, middle, and high school.

A Journey to Improve Collaboration Efforts Between Stakeholders and Teacher Librarians

A Journey to Improve Collaboration Efforts Between Stakeholders and Teacher Librarians
Author: Jeanna Diane Wersebe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

Collaboration between teachers and teacher librarians (TLs) faces fundamental challenges in the high school setting. Studies of professional library organizations have suggested that collaborations between teachers and TLs are effective in improving student learning, encouraging personal reading, and raising digital citizenship awareness. The conceptual framework and structure of the teacher and librarian collaboration model (TLC-III) is based on the notion that robust collaboration efforts involving groups of teachers have positive effects on students. Researchers have validated the TLC-III model in studies with various groups of teachers and TLs as instructional partners, but have not done so at the high school level. The aim of this study was accordingly to validate the TLC-III model at this level with various high school teachers across disciplines and to determine why some choose to collaborate with TLs while others do not and the factors that influence the formation of a collaborative environment at a large, comprehensive high school. This mixed-method study relied on 62 anonymous surveys and 22 face-to-face interviews to assess what is needed to improve collaboration as part of the learning environment at this school.

Collaboration and Co-Teaching

Collaboration and Co-Teaching
Author: Andrea Honigsfeld
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-08-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412976502

Help ELLs achieve success with an integrated, collaborative program! Teacher collaboration and co-teaching are proven strategies for helping students with diverse needs achieve academically. Now this practical resource provides a step-by-step guide to making collaboration and co-teaching work for general education teachers and English as a second language (ESL) specialists to better serve the needs of English language learners (ELLs). The authors address the fundamental questions of collaboration and co-teaching, examine how a collaborative program helps ELLs learn content while meeting English language development goals, and offer information on school leaders' roles in facilitating collaboration schoolwide. Featuring six in-depth case studies, this guide helps educators: Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative service delivery Choose from a range of strategies and configurations, from informal planning and collaboration to a fully developed co-teaching partnership Use templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice Evaluate the strategies' success using the guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires included Collaboration and Co-Teaching helps ESL, ELL, and general education teachers combine their expertise to provide better support for their ELLs!

Collaborating to Meet Standards

Collaborating to Meet Standards
Author: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher: Linworth
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Provides an introduction to collaboration, including a history and overview of the movement, practical suggestions for implementing the collaborative process, and ideas for overcoming common roadblocks to collaboration.

Brotherhood

Brotherhood
Author: Anne Westrick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101602511

The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. Yankees now patrol the streets of Richmond, Virginia, and its citizens, both black and white, are struggling to redefine their roles and relationships. By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices with a tailor and sneaks off for reading lessons with Rachel, a freed slave, at her school for African-American children. By night he follows his older brother Jeremiah to the meetings of a group whose stated mission is to protect Confederate widows like their mother. But as the true murderous intentions of the group, now known as the Ku Klux Klan, are revealed, Shad finds himself trapped between old loyalties and what he knows is right. In this powerful and unflinching story of a family caught in the period of Reconstruction, A.B. Westrick provides a glimpse into the enormous social and political upheaval of the time.

The Collaborative Teacher

The Collaborative Teacher
Author: Cassandra Erkens
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1934009946

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.