[CASL-L] re: collaboration ideas

[Katherine Candido]

Hi Everyone,

   Thanks so much for all of your ideas!  I'm feeling better and realizing that 
I already do quite a bit.  In answer to your questions - I am a "special", aka 
prep for teachers, I have a part time aide and I do not have a technology 
teacher at my school (fell prey to budget cuts a few years ago).  Here's the 
condensed version of your ideas in case this might help others.

·         Target a few well respected teachers and develop one or two lessons 
tying together language arts and content area subjects like science and 
integrate into what classroom teachers are doing 

·         Develop a form for teachers to fill out for major units allowing them 
to check off what they’d like – books, audiovisual, lessons in technology
·         Host before and after school mini meetings to showcase library 
resources and talk to teachers about what they’re doing
·         Give book talks to a grade level each week
·         Participate with teachers in PD and assist them with PD
·         Get copies of curriculum guides and become familiar with what 
classroom teachers are expected to teach
·         Talk with teachers to find out what they are doing – possibly start 
with one or two
·         Introduce some technology that teachers might not be able to do on 
their own 

·         From Maureen Schlosser:  Do you have a technology specialist in your 
school? If so, you can share your schedule with them. That is what I do in our 
school, and our principal set the schedule up for me 5 years ago when she hired 
me. She wanted to make sure I had enough time to teach and take care of the 
library.   Here is how it works. Our library is a "special". All classes k-2 
visit us for 42 minutes each week. I teach the morning classes, and the 
technology specialist teaches the afternoon classes. This frees me up in the 
afternoon to work with teachers and to work on cataloging, inventory, book 
orders, etc. It also frees the technology specialist up to collaborate with 
teachers in the morning. I have just a handful of teachers that I work with at 
this point. I look at what they are doing in Reading or in Social Studies or 
Science, and try to come up with some ideas that might interest them. 

 
Thanks again!
 
Kate
 
Kate Candido
Library Media Specialist
Orange Avenue School
Milford, CT
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