I spent an entire year on sabbatical informally researching that question. I
started out with the notion of wanting to know what librarians in the high school
did to collaborate with teachers but I found that the librarians I visited and
emailed etc wanted to know what I did. A superficial answer to your question is
that hs teachers have a curriculum to cover and they just don't let anything get in
their way. They are overburdened and harried and feel that the time they spend w/
us planning and bringing their clases in takes away from what they do. I have
resigned myself to this attitude and continue to cultivate the relationships I
have w/teachers who do use the library and every year I target a few new people and
thereby add to the list of teachers/staff who collaborate. Of course we work
directly w/the students and I think more and more of them rely on the library but
we are a big school with only two librarians. If every single teacher wanted to
collaborate and every student came to use the library physically we couldn't do it.
So we rationalize and rightly so, that we are doing a very good job servicing our
clientle by collaborating w/teachers, students and staff as much as possible.
-----Original Message-----
From: Juliann Moskowitz <juliann14@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 08:17:24 -0400
Subject: GEN: Why don't teachers want to collaborate?
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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