I have watched management set up collaborative planning with the
literacy team (which is much needed here in our multicultural school)
and set it up successfully.
What is different?
* Management set it up and it has been accepted.
* Literacy staff get time at full staff meetings to train teaching staff
in the literacy skills required. (I find it hard to get 10 mins at staff
meetings)
* It is compulsory. Before an assessment task is ready for
distribution to students, staff must have spent time with the literacy
team making adjustments for the students that need them, checking
comprehension and reading levels etc.
* The time is scheduled. The Literacy team put time aside to work
with ppl form each subject area
* The literacy team sit in the staff study and are readily accessible
and recognised as teachers (I have asked, even pleased for this and it
has been refused each year).
*They call it 'co-planning' and it is successful.
What is different?
Management understanding and commitment
Staff acceptance as part of the ethos of the school
Staff understanding of the skills.
Jan Radford
Teacher Librarian
Sydney Australia
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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