Monday, May 12, 2008

Thing 15 - Doing it together better

We, at Harding, are quite blessed in this department as our librarian, the ever radiant Ms. Preller, has always been ready & willing to work with teachers & students to increase librarian literacy skills. I'm not sure if the teachers at Harding are even used to it yet or know what a great resource we have as the previous, though equally charming, librarian was a smidge less pro-active.

After reading the article on collaboration, I can see how hard it might be to get collaboration going. Maybe I find it easy to work with our librarian b/c my classroom is directly across from the library, so I am always passing through & saying hi. To facilitate collaboration between library media specialists and teachers, they could give mini-presentations at staff meetings or staff development days on specific collaborative projects they have completed to give other teachers a clear idea of what they could accomplish in partnership with their media specialist.

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