Thinking about Collaboration

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Thinking about Collaboration?

• Fasten your seatbelts for the Drive of Your Life!

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Data driven?

• In a study conducted by Colorado's Library
  Research Service (LRS)
• Achievement test scores averaged 8 percent
  higher in elementary schools and 18 to 21 percent
  higher in middle schools when library media
  specialists collaborated with classroom teachers

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Pit stop

• Learn from the experts
• Indianapolis media specialist, Leslie Preddy,
  discusses the benefits of collaboration for
  educators and students in Collaborating for
  Student Success (Access Learning, Oct. 2003)

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Get behind the wheel

• Benefits
• Instructional support
• Varied experience
• Broad array of resources
• Opportunity to better assist students

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Start your engines

• Planning
• Select or design a unit
• Divide responsibilities
• Create a timeline
• Determine assessment strategies
• Collaboration Planning Sheet
• from Indiana Learns (IDOE)

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Test drive a sample unit

• Background
• 8th grade Language Arts students begin a guided
  inquiry into career choices. The unit serves as
  an introduction to the basic research process.
  Students will select a topic, locate and
  synthesize information, and create a final
  project to present their career to the class.

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Standards

• Indiana Academic standards
• 8.4.4 Plan and conduct multiple-step information
  searches by using computer networks
• 8.4.5 Achieve an effective balance between
  researched information and original ideas
• 8.7.12 Deliver research presentations
• Information Literacy standards
• Standard 1 Access information efficiently and
  effectively
• Standard 3 Uses information accurately and
  creatively
• Standard 4 Pursues information related to
  personal interest
• Standard 9 Participates effectively in groups to
  pursue and generate information

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Sharing the load
Language Arts Teacher Introduction to
research Project overview (process,
expectations, grading criteria) Information
synthesis Evaluation of final product

• Media Specialist
• Locating career resources
• (websites, databases, print materials)
• Computer lab instruction
• (Drive of Your Life, searching the Internet,
  using OPAC)

Both Student guidance and encouragement Determinin
g assessment strategies Source citation Process
evaluation
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Integrating technology

• Primary Resource
• The Indiana Youth Institutes
• Drive of Your Life
• http//www.driveofyourlife.org/educator
• Sample guide and process assessment
• Sample lab instruction tool

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Where are we headed?

• Following Drive of Your Life, students choose
  one focus career. With the help of the teacher
  and SLMS, students generate a list of five
  questions or areas of interest to explore and
  begin a KWL to determine what additional
  information is needed.
• KWL

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Differentiating instruction

• Adapting to reach a diverse population
• Offer a variety of resources
• Present a list of project options
• Allow students to work in teams

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Paving the way!

• A real world connection
• Students create a 5 year timeline.
• With the information acquired, students are
  ready to map out necessary high school courses,
  training opportunities, and corresponding work
  experience that will prepare them for their
  chosen careers.

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Whats next?

• An extension activity
• The Indiana Youth Institutes
• Trip to College
• http//www.triptocollege.org

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Sources cited
Collaborative Unit Planning. Indiana Learns.
lt http//www.indianalearns.org/downloads/Page33P
lanning.pdf gt Correlation of the information
Literacy Standards and Indianas Academic
Standards for English/Language Arts. 2001.
Indiana Department of Education. lt
http//www.doe.state.in.us/standards/ILS_Correlati
ons.html gt Drive of Your Life. 2005. Indiana
Youth Institute. March 2006 lt
http//www.driveofyourlife.org/launch.html gt.
KWL. Teach-nology. 2006.lt http//www.teach-nolo
gy.com/worksheets/graphic/kwl/ gt Preddy, Leslie.
Collaborating for Student Success. Access
Learning. 2003. Cable in the Classroom
Online.http//www.ciconline.com Starr, Linda.
Strong Libraries Improve Student Achievement.
2005. Education World. lt http//www.educationwor
ld.com/a_admin/admin/admin178.shtml gt Trip to
College. 2005. Indiana Youth Institute. March
2006. lt http//www.triptocollege.org gt

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Project options

• PowerPoint presentation
• Interview someone in the field
• Recruiting brochure or commercial
• Script a mock job interview