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MODULE 1. Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact. Judi Moreillon. Introduction and Chapter I Notes: Collaboration is key to the success of the students and school. Many benefits come from co-teaching most relate to the ability to achieve smaller class size during the co-teaching, smaller class size benefit is supported through research.

Quotes: "Team teaching with another professional gives educators job-embedded professional development, which is currently considered a best practice in education." (8)

Citation (MLA: Created for free at [|EasyBib.com])

Moreillon, Judi. Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2007.

[|Coteaching Images PowerPoint] [|Cooperation-Collaboration PPT] [|Coteaching Strategies PPT] Notes: When we, librarians, are in era of cut-backs and being replaced by para-professionals classroom teacher and teacher librarian collaboration is vital to our job security as well as promoting student success. Quotes:"BEST way for you to advocate for your school library program and the school librarian’s contribution as a vital member of the teaching faculty." Citation: Moreillon, Judi. "Coteaching Strategies." PowerPoint. Lecture. Web. 10 Feb. 2010.

Notes: True learning is a messy process that involves following your curiosity. This process would be better facilitated with a librarian teacher and classroom teacher process. Quotes: "Both students and teachers alike will begin to see that a true sense of accomplishment in the library media center comes from the genuine struggle to make meaning."(27) Allison Zmuda. Citation: **Zmuda, Allison. "What Does It Really Look Like When Students Are Learning in the Library Media Center?" School Library Media Activities Monthly 3.1 (Sep2008) : 25-27. EBSCOhost. Web. 18 Sept. 2010. []. **
 * "What Does It Really Look Like When Students Are Learning in the Library Media Center?" Zmuda, Allison.**

Notes: Using self assessment tools like rubrics helps students use meta-cognition and ultimately take charge of their own learning. Quotes: "Helping young minds take charge of their own learning is the finest contribution educators can make to student success in the 21st-century world." Citation: Harada, Violet. H. “Self-Assessment: Challenging Students to Take Charge of Learning.” School Library Monthly 26.10 (2010): 13-15. Retrieved August 23, 2010, from Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text database

Notes: There are many challenges facing a would be collaborator but, the rewards are worth it. Quotes: "This charge will not be easy: it will be fraught with difficult conversations, political strategizing, repeated modeling, relentless data collection and analysis, and candid feedback. But the rewards of good business will be spectacular: the sound of students engaged in the construction of knowledge and the communication of thinking, the opportunity to see that the investment of resources positively affects student performance on higher-order tasks and teaching practices, and the sense of satisfaction that the library media center is the most information-rich, inquiry-rich, resource-rich, and pedagogically-rich classroom in the building." Citation: Zmuda, A., and V. H. Harada. The Learning Specialist: Clarifying the Role of Library Media Specialists. In Librarians as Learning Specialists: Meeting the Imperative for the 21st Century, 2008. 23-43 (pdf).

Notes: As the school environment changes to one of collaboration the process becomes more natural to participants and easier to execute. Quotes: "Over time, the teacher librarian matures as a leader in collaboration. As this maturity develops, the amount of team participation in decision making increases." Citation: McGregor, J.Collaboration and Leadership.In Stripling, B. K. and Hughes-Hassell, S. (eds.), Curriculum Connections through the Library. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. 119-219. (pdf)

Notes: When the librarians collaborate with teachers their value to the school increases; student test scores are higher and administrators feel they are getting their money's worth. Quotes: "Since our new librarian has taken over, the library is a place where students hang out and read. The circulation numbers have increased dramatically each year and, for a small school, the choice of books is outstanding. I think it no coincidence that as the circulation numbers have increased so have the scores on the reading ISAT. Principal, a high school" (17)

[|Lance, Keith Curry, Marcia J. Rodney, and Bill Schwarz. “The Impact of School Libraries on Academic Achievement: A Research Study Based on Responses from Administrators in Idaho]. School Library Monthly 26.9 (2010): 14-17. Retrieved August 23, 2010, from Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text database.