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QUESTIONS: COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION

1.    How do you communicate with teachers ?

  • In person: library, staff room, committees, meetings?

  • Online: E-mail, Wikis, Facebook, online workspaces, etc?


2.    What is most effective in terms of time, place?

3.    What is your process for developing collaborative lessons with colleagues?

4.    What are your various levels of collaborations? ( e.g. basic resources support - complete planning & co-teaching & evaluation).

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COLLABORATION PROCESS: EXAMPLE FROM DR. CHARLES BEST SECONDARY

IN BRIEF

1.    Someone has a good idea: Teacher-librarian contacts teacher or vice versa (briefly in person, or by e-mail - can take less than a few minutes). Teaching variables usually include: course content, grade, ability of students, curricular goals, time teacher has allocated, product to be evaluated and information literacy and media literacy goals.

2.    If teacher has an assignment in a Word document, she/he sends it to teacher-librarian by e-mail as an attachment. If no assignment, teacher-librarian may offer to write it.

3.   Teacher-librarian and teacher discuss edits, adaptations etc to the assignment.

4.    Teacher-librarian posts edited assignment in a blog, and adds links, images, and a narrative by the teacher-librarian.

5.    Teacher may teach lesson alone, or in combination with teacher-librarian.
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ADVANTAGES

Time saved

  • Once the assignment is in digital form, easily moved anywhere

  • E-mail etiquette makes it easy to get right to the point

  • Communication takes place instantly through school walls, without schedules appointments - easy to fit in
  • Once published online, can be easily seen and edited

Assignment can be projected in classroom.

Students can work anywhere. Once assignment is published, with embedded resources, homework can be done at any online computer.

Teacher-librarian integral. If students need support, or have missed the class where assignment was given out, they can see the teacher-librarian  ( whose schedule is more open than classroom teacher).

Adaptation & Open Access. Once posted,  assignments are easily used again, or adapted for other teachers & students ( anywhere in world)

Advocacy tool. This lesson is now transparent (to parents, administration, trustees).

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EXAMPLES OF ONLINE COLLABORATION

WORKSHOP DELIVERY MODEL
(As modelled by this workshop), site is created, used in a live workshop, and then remains online for reference.

  • Open sesame 2.0 : Helping students experience the treasures of the web resourcefully, creatively & critically

LESSONS

* NOTE: THESE COLLABORATIVE LESSONS VARY IN DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY, DEPENDING ON THE NEEDS AND REQUESTS OF THE TEACHER AND CLASS. (MORE ON THIS TOPIC).

1. Complex co-planning, researching & teaching

2. Set up site for teacher, with some resources - still to be filled

3. Set up site for teacher, searched for and posted resources, RSS feed

4. Provided print & online resources & some one-on-one with students helping them identify plants

5.  Resources found online & posted ( also print) - worked with students in library

6. Complex lesson co-planned, written, modelled

7. Complex lesson, co-planned - t-l found text, primary sources, archives, video resources; created fill in sheets. Co-taught in library, debates also.

8. Whole lesson co-planned, T-L researched issues, wrote copy with links.

9. Teacher-librarian resource support - pulling together resources for role-playing assignment

10. Exam prep -list of topics provided by teacher  - teacher-librarian found video clips



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