I have been doing some reflecting on this issue, also. I would like
to put the idea on the table that some teachers feel that by
collaborating and allowing us to co-teach units, they are giving up
part of his or her classes. Many teachers like to be in total control
and appear to the students that they are the experts. I think that
at times when they allow us to be a part of the teaching that it, in
their eyes, it shows the kids that they don't have all the answers.
Whether the teachers feel that it lessons the esteem in which they
are held by the kids or it is an ego thing, I don't know. Even coming
for help on sources, etc, seems to be hard for some since it shows
that they don't know something. Obviously, this isn't true in all
cases, but in my 30 years of doing this job, there have been a fair
share who are afraid to ask for help, give up total classroom
control, or appear less than the ultimate guru to his or her classes.
Just my 2¢ worth.
Carole
On May 25, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Juliann Moskowitz wrote:
> It's the time of year when I have to write a self-reflection
> document for my supervisor. One of the questions that we are
> supposed to address is on collaboration.
>
> It has been my experience that few teachers come in to talk to us
> (me and my co-librarian) about what project their class will be
> working on. They just sign up for library time. Even when we talk
> to the teachers after they come in with the class and show them
> databases or websites or books that can help their classes with
> research, very few of them will come in NEXT time to ask for our help.
>
> Why is that? Obviously the students can research more effectively
> with our help. I even had a teacher come in last week and his kids
> were researching biographical information so I told him we have a
> subscription biographical database that his students can use and he
> didn't even share that information with his students! I was
> dumbfounded.
>
> Why do *you* think teachers don't collaborate? I will post a hit if
> anyone is interested.**************************** Juliann T.
> Moskowitz Library Media Specialist Norwalk High School Norwalk, CT
> 06851 juliann14@hotmail.com Reading is a means of thinking with
> another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.--Charles
> Scribner, Jr. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons
> from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the
> future—Sydney J Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
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