Learning to Change the Way We Teach
Written on October 30, 2008 – 3:47 pm | by erniec
2:45-3:45 NCLSMA Session
Learning to Change the Way We Teach: Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Unit
Collaborate. Integrate. Reflect. We’ve heard it all before. But really, how do people do it? Join us as we share our collaborated research unit. Learn how we did it step-by-step, what worked, what didn’t and what we plan to change. You can even go home and copy what we did with your co-workers! Handouts available. PowerPoint, Handout 1, Handout 2
What were the things that made the 2nd grade teacher want to collaborate with the media specialist?
- Resources
- Information Literacy Skills (using an index, encyclopedia, magazines)
- understanding of the complimentary sets of teaching knowledge that each teacher offers the process.
Unifying model was the Wonder Wheel from Debbie Miller’s Reading with Meaning and it was enlivened by good topics (like spiders).
Things they liked:
2nd grade teacher – integration of several learning objectives (language arts, tech, media) were accomplished within the scope of this project
Tech guy – continuous improvement of teaching practice over time. Things he would do differently – more care in citing sources, and using more non-Google resources (such as NC Wise Owl).
Teacher-Librarian – The results of collaboration are so powerful that all of this work is worth it. Establishes a predictable process for students.
The multiple learning objectives were accomplished because the collaborative teaching was addressing the classroom goals (it was not an additional “thing” on top of everything else). The next go round will include much more joint assessment.
