Collaborative Program PlanningTeaching

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Collaborative Program Planning/Teaching

• Welcome
• Library Media Specialists

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Library Media Services Location 9629
Albert Pimienta Instructional Supervisor 305
995-2283
Dwight Bailey 305 995-2233
Roxanne Palenzuela 305 995-2241
Luz Gomez 305 995-2283
Showanda Richardson 305 995-4587
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Our Contributors

• Milene Del Rio, NBCT
• Coral Gables Elementary
• 14 yrs. Library Experience
• mdelrio_at_dadeschools.net
• Cindy Stafford
• South Miami Senior
• 3 yrs. Library Experience
• cstafford_at_dadeschools.net
• Teacher of the Year (this year!)

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Collaborative ProgramPlanning and Teaching
TEC Component 2-407-005
General Objective
To prepare the participant to be the
instructional leader in the schools
instructional program through collaborative
planning with teachers and the integration of
information literacy skills in the curriculum.
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Specific Objectives

• Understand the library standards and guidelines
  of the national, state and district goals and
  objectives.
• Identify the appropriate roles of library media
  specialist and classroom teacher in an integrated
  information skills program.
• Name advantages of an integrated approach to
  skills instruction over skills taught in
  isolation by library media specialist.
• Identify differences among coordination,
  cooperation, and collaboration.

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Specific Objectives

• Identify methods of collaboration with teachers
  to ensure that the school library media program
  is able to meet the individual needs of students.
• Collaborate with teachers in the creation and
  implementation of the content area standards,
  goals, and objectives.
• Plan and teach the latest research techniques and
  strategies that are applicable to the content
  area and assignment.
• Collaborate and communicate with teachers and the
  technology specialist to identify and use the
  full range of learning technologies required to
  meet the students information needs.

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Specific Objectives

• Recognize the importance of participating in
  curriculum teams and collaborative planning.
• Identify the elements essential to collaborative
  work, including time, trust, climate, resources.
• Establish effective interpersonal relationships
  that demonstrate an understanding of curriculum
  objectives, effective listening and negotiation
  of responsibility of activities.
• Describe and explain the instructional design
  process.

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Follow Up Activity Due November 14, 2006

• Develop an integrated lesson plan
• addressing a district curriculum objective
• an appropriate information literacy skills
  objective
• specifying the roles of the teacher and the
  library media specialist
• include instructional materials that the teacher
  and/or the library media specialist develop
• If possible, a library media specialist and a
  classroom teacher will work together to complete
  this activity
• Submit the collaborative planning work sheet from
  your lesson.

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Follow Up Activity (continued) Due November
14, 2006

• Each participant will complete an Action Plan
  that spells out what steps will be taken back on
  the job to apply the newly learned concepts and
  skills. Plan should be shared with
  principal/department/grade level chair that
  observes and shares feedback.

Due November 14, 2006
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Questions?
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What is Collaboration?

• to work jointly with others or together
  especially in an intellectual endeavor
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• http//www.m-w.com/
• We are professionally defined by those with whom
  we collaborate

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Why Collaborate?

• To increase student achievement (Florida Study
  2003 http//www.sunlink.ucf.edu/makingthegrade/)
• Work with Teachers
• To support the curriculum
• To build and establish positive rapport
• Work with Students
• Promote information literacy
• Create meaningful instructional experiences Add
  other links to more articles

Read articles, summarize, and SHARE!
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Types 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.

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Collaborate with your schools

• Administrators

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Collaborate with your schools

• Classroom Teachers

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Collaborate with your schools

• Electives/Special Area Teachers

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Collaborate with your schools

• Parents

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Collaborate with your schools

• Local Public Library

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Collaborate with local business

• Community Stakeholders
• Milene Cold Stone Creamery

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Collaborate with your

• Professional Colleagues
• American Library Association
• ALA
• American Association of School Librarians
• AASL
• Florida Association for Media in Education
• FAME
• Miami-Dade Media Specialists Association
• M-DMSA
• M-DCPS Library Media Services Department
• LMS

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Where Do We Begin?

• Youthe library media specialist
• Obtain administrative support.
• Implement a flexible schedule.
• Create buy in Link curriculum to information
  literacy standards
• Get out of the Library!
• Sell yourself and your library media program
• Attend grade level and department meeting
• Be flexible in working with everyone.
• Choose a fan with whom you begin your
  collaboration.

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How/ Where Do We Collaborate?

• One on One
• In the classroom
• In the library media center
• In the copy room, staff lounge, hallway
• Via e-mail
• Curriculum / Grade Level /
• Departmental Meetings
• Staff Meeting

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How Do We Assess Collaboration?

• Reflect and discuss the process with teachers
• Reflect and discuss with students
• Include information literacy standards in a task
  rubric.
• School Library Rubric K-5
• New Haven Public Schools
• Rubistar
• See Packet too!

Complete Collaboration Self Evaluation Checklist
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Formal vs. Informal Plans

• Collaboration
• LMS and CT or group
• Established set of expectation
• Agreed upon product/outcome

• On- the- Fly
• In the hallway
• Via e-mail
• Collaborative Planning Worksheet
• more formalized planning

Milene shares collaborative planning worksheet
examples
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Reminder

• BE The Go To NOT
• The Go For

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Before Collaboration

• Know your Clients.
• Know your Collection.
• Know your Curriculum.

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Know Your Clients

• Office of Performance Improvement
• Know your students reading and achievement
  levels- compare to district and state levels
• Office of Strategic Planning

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Know your Curriculum

• Use your time!
• Sunshine State Standards
• Competency Based Curriculum
• FL DOE
• Information Literacy Standards

Dont run a parallel program get them to
intersect!
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Know Your Collection

• Destiny
• Print age of collection report.
• Want more?- Destiny Training on 11/9

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Collaborative Planning Process

• Collaborative Plan Worksheet
• Plan to meet at the end of the unit to evaluate
• Record what worked and what did not
• Record suggestions for future use
• Poll students and reflect on the outcomes
• Make it better for the next time.

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Collaborative Planning Resources

• More Collaboration Tips
• Library Instruction.com
• Collaboration How, What, Why

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Collaborative Planning Resources- 2

• School Library Media Activities Monthly
• Library Media Connection
• Destiny
• SUNLINK
• FINDS
• WebQuests
• MarcoPolo