Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships

Collaborative Models for Librarian and Teacher Partnerships

Kathryn Kennedy, Lucy Santos Green

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 282

ISBN13: 9781466643611|ISBN10: 1466643617|EISBN13: 9781466643628

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4361-1

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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.

Table of Contents

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Research

Chapter 1

From Collaboration to Transformation: Practitioner Research for School Librarians and Classroom Teachers (pages 1-11)

Jen Scott Curwood

As part of educational reforms, educators are increasingly expected to gather and interpret data, implement initiatives, and analyze outcomes. Practitioner research offers a framework for conducting school-based inquiry;...

Chapter 2

School Librarian and Teacher Candidate Collaboration (pages 12-22)

Barbara Ray, Connie Cassity

Change in teacher attitudes toward teacher-librarian collaboration begins in teacher preparation programs (Conderman & Johnston-Rodriguez, 2009). Through the assignment detailed in this chapter, teacher candidates prepared for...

Chapter 3

Collaboration is the Answer – What’s the Question?: Using a Framework of Guided Questions to Inform Collaborative Partnerships (pages 23-39)

Angel Kymes, Alicia Gillean

This chapter describes the models of collaboration, presents technological resources and avenues through which collaborative interactions can occur, the establishment of procedures, and steps around a set of question phrases and...

Chapter 4

Teaching Multiple Literacies through Collaboration (pages 40-43)

Judith C. Stanton

Through collaboration, teacher librarians aid teachers in embedding multiple literacies skills across the curriculum. As school leaders and technological resources, teacher librarians have the necessary skills to teach digital...

Chapter 5

Voices at the Table: Collaboration and Intertextuality (pages 44-55)

Sue C. Kimmel

While we often associate reading aloud with children and particularly younger children, the practice of reading aloud has historically been a way for a community to share texts for information and enjoyment. Findings from a year-long...

Chapter 6

School Librarians as Significant Other: Using Online Professional Learning Communities for the Development of Pre-Service Teachers (pages 56-66)

Lara M. Luetkehans, Rebecca D. Hunt

This chapter explores three strands of research: professional learning communities, the significant others in the development of pre-service teachers, and teacher-school librarian collaboration to develop a strategy for using Online...

Chapter 7

Preparing Stakeholders for the School Librarian’s Instructional Partnership Role: Whose Responsibility Is It? (pages 67-81)

Judi Moreillon

Although the American Association of School Librarians and researchers in the field have identified the instructional partner role as critical to the future of school librarianship, many school librarians report that their colleagues...

Chapter 8

Special Collaboration: Establishing Successful Partnerships between School Librarians and Special Educators (pages 82-98)

Stephanie A. Jones, Kathi Vanderbilt, Kelly Bramblett

This chapter provides a foundation for the development of collaborative relationships between school librarians and special educators by examining the commonalities between the roles and responsibilities of the school librarian and...

Chapter 9

School Librarians and Music Educators: Unique Interdisciplinary Partnerships (pages 99-109)

Lucy Santos Green, Brad Green

The National Association for Music Education has recognized the vital role technology plays in the 21st century P-12 music classroom. Its standards for technology integration in the music classroom emphasize that technology...

Case Studies and Models

Chapter 10

Collaborative Learning Design in Librarian and Teacher Partnerships (pages 111-120)

Michelle Kowalsky

This chapter details some of the different learning design models and collaboration styles that promote effective partnerships between classroom teachers and school librarians. It evaluates types of lesson designs that lend...

Chapter 11

“Need to Know”: Partnerships in Project-Based Learning (pages 121-131)

Rhonda Huisman

This chapter outlines, defines, and illustrates examples of project-based learning, while focusing on how librarians can offer support to teachers when creating and leading project-based learning programs. Various disciplines and...

Chapter 12

Building Literacy through Media-Rich Projects: Slow Down, Look, and Connect (pages 132-144)

Joan Lange

This chapter details a case study of a librarian and high school English teacher who collaborated on Shakespeare projects to improve students’ critical reading of sonnets and soliloquies. The literary analysis goal expanded as...

Chapter 13

Simplifying and Expanding Collaboration through Collaborative Websites: Using Technology Wisely (pages 145-160)

Eileen E. Schroeder, E. Anne Zarinnia, Jason Glampe, Vickie Horman, Jodie Sanken, Michael Slowinski

For many years, school librarians have recognized the importance of collaborating with teachers to integrate inquiry into student work but have met with varying degrees of success in achieving this goal. Traditional teaching methods...

Chapter 14

College Ready: Improving Student Research Skills Through Professional Collaboration (pages 161-173)

Brenda L. Boyer, Alison M. Kocis-Westgate

High school librarians and teachers face the challenge of preparing students for the rigors of academic-level inquiry. To achieve this goal, one school examined its research practices and explored ways to more fully integrate...

School Library Voices

Chapter 15

Administration: Making a Connection with the Library’s Strongest Advocate (pages 175-184)

Rebecca Kelly

It is an interesting time to be a school librarian! The Common Core State Standards are changing the way school librarians look at their collections and support their teachers. The need for students to develop digital literacy skills...

Chapter 16

Increased Engagement: Exponential Impact on School Library (pages 185-196)

Susan Kowalski

Rich collaboration with students has a powerful impact on a school library program, its students, and the entire school community. Strategies and best practices for the development of these collaborative partnerships are shared in...

Chapter 17

Invaluable Collaboration (pages 197-205)

Elizabeth K. Turner

This chapter presents examples of content-focused collaborations that illustrate how a school librarian can build collaboration with teachers. By describing actual lessons and units that were developed collaboratively with teachers...

Chapter 18

Interview with a Librarian: The Collaborative Process as a Journey Rather than a Destination (pages 206-215)

Susan K. S. Grigsby

Current teacher evaluation systems place value on collaborative relationships between educators. Common Core Standards strongly suggest interdisciplinary units of study and make several references to reading and literacy in all...

Chapter 19

Collaboration + Integration = A Library Program Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts (pages 216-233)

Michelle L. Maniaci

Collaboration between classroom teachers and school librarians is widely promoted as best practice. While the concept itself is easily understood, the path to collaboration can seem elusive. One of the essential tasks of school...

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