What is it and how do you get started?

•Goal-oriented talk, discourse, conversation, communication, between two or more educators. (Dr. Gail Bush)

•Sharing resources of the mix of human beings involved in teaching and learning. (Jerome S. Bruner)

•A shared vision and a whole that is greater than a sum of its parts. (Senge et al.)

•Two or more people plan, teach, and evaluate instruction together. (Dr. Betty Morris)

Definitions of Collaboration cont.•Process of shared creation – two or more individuals with complementary skills interacting to create a shared understanding that none had previously possessed or could have come to on their own. (Michael Schrage)

•Collaborative Planning is two or more equal partners who set out to Create a unit of study based on content standards in one of more areas Plus information literacy standards, a unit that is team-designed, Team-taught, and team-evaluated. (Author unknown)

•Collaborative planning is teachers and library media specialists working together as an instructional team to plan for instruction that integrates information literacy skills and resources with curriculum objectives. (Author unknown)

What do the definitions have in common?

Where do I start?Cooperation Coordination

Collaboration

--informal, no goals are defined jointly, noplanning together, information is shared asneeded.

--some planning is required and morecommunication, thus, a closer workingrelationship is developed.

--working together, having shared commitmentand goals, developed in partnership.Leadership, resources, risk, control andresults are shared. More accomplished thancould have been individually.

A common collaboration framework provides:• A common language

• A blueprint for developing a collaborative relationship

• Prompts for discussion for those that do not know where to start

• Support for collaboration is not as simple as providing common prep time

• A dynamic tool designed to get you talking, thinking and sharing

• Flexibility

I. Design*Identify content area objectives and information skills objectives

to be taught. Include:

---Learning outcomes---Instructional activities and design

---Individual needs of students---Teaching strategies

*Identify responsibility of teachers, students, library

media specialists and others:---Who will do it

---What will be done---When will it be done---Where will it be done---How will it be done

*Identify needed resources and equipment:---Facility needs

---Print and nonprint materials---Supplies

II. Implementation*Schedule time and resources needed in

library media center and classroom:---Small groups---Large groups

---Individual students

Carry out planned activities.Depending on needs, this may involve:

---Teacher and library media specialist team teaching---Teacher alone

---Library media specialist alone

*Monitor student progress:---Check for understanding

---Modify implementation as needed

III. Evaluation*Executes ongoing assessment

and evaluation of:---Objectives

---Unit activities---Resources---Scheduling

---Student outcomes---Teaching strategies

---Time allocation---Research process

*Revise the instructional unit:

---Unit evaluation---Teacher input

---Library media specialist input---Student input

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“From Cooperation to Collaboration” http://www.acrl.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/confarchive/CoopToCollab.pdf

“Ten Reasons to Hug Your Librarian”. Joyce Kasman Valenza. May 2004. http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/pdf/hug.pdf

Bush, Gail. The Buddy System: the Practice of Collaboration. Publisher: ALA Editions, 2003.

Morris, Betty J. Administering the School Library Media Center. Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2004

“Research about Collaboration”. Ken Haycock. February 2004. http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tltoolkit/what_works/works_v31_3.html

“Collaborating for Student Success”. Access Learning. October 2003. www.cicoline.org

“Let Me Count the Ways”. Dan Fleming. August 2004. www.schoollibraryjournal.com

Bibliography for Collaboration