LIS 6455 Organization and Administration of the School Media Center Class Session 7

Resources Resources on Collaboration and Teaching Empowering Learners: Chapter 2 on “Teaching for Learning” Chapter 3, Guideline 5 on “Policies” AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm SLMM: Chapter 10 in specific The emphasis on collaboration and the professional role of the media specialist throughout

Resources Resources on Collaboration and Teaching (Continued) Knowledge Quest and School Library Media Research AASL’s online journals http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/knowledgequest.cfm http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/schoollibrary.cfm LM_NET daily discussion list and archives http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/

Resources Resources on Collaboration and Teaching (Continued) Florida DOE web site Information literacy standards and Sunshine State Standards FINDS Florida’s information problem solving process model http://www.fldoe.org/bii/Library_Media/ Web search for district and state-level sites around the country Big6 and other process models for managing information literacy instruction http://www.big6.com/ Association for College and Research Libraries “Information Literacy” website http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/index.cfm

Benefits of Collaborative Teaching Why Collaboration, Teaching, and Information Literacy Programs? FAME Florida Media Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 4-5 http://issuu.com/cmcwilli/docs/fmqss05?mode=embed&documentId=081021111232-aa757fdd27844c188b0cd588d5488c72&layout=grass Benefits for: You, the media specialist Teachers Students

Benefits of Collaborative Teaching For you, the media specialist Recognition as a professional in the school By the administration By your colleagues Out of the “support service” role and into the colleague role Part of the core teaching/learning mission of the school Job security

Benefits of Collaborative Teaching For teachers Media specialist and media center become a resource for teaching selected Sunshine State Standards Share the FCAT pressure Team of teacher and media specialist collaborating on instruction cuts the student/teacher ratio in half

Benefits of Collaborative Teaching For the students Student achievement is the “bottom line” purpose for library media in schools Short-term benefits FCAT performance Meeting classroom assignment requirements Meeting personal informational and recreational needs Long-term benefits Students become problem solvers Students become lifelong learners

Impediments to Collaboration Teachers and administrators do not understand “best practices” in library media services Teachers and administrators do not know what information literacy is Fixed (closed) access scheduling instead of flexible (open) access scheduling Lack of paraprofessional, clerical, and/or technical support personnel in the media center

The Key to Opening Collaboration The teacher must perceive the collaborative relationship as beneficial to them and their students. With the pressures of FCAT, class size, and scheduling, teachers are not inclined to give blocks of their precious classroom time to a media specialist. The KEY to opening collaborative planning and teaching is to demonstrate to your faculty colleagues that there is an overlap in FCAT skills that are traditionally taught separately in the classroom and the media center. Then you, the media specialist, can become a teaching resource for children’s needs for learning to find, organize, and report information.