BrainstormA1.4

=**Brainstorming**= The goals of this mini-case study are to increase your awareness of the benefits of classroom-library collaboration to students, classroom teachers, school librarians, and administrators and to collaborate with a class member to analyze the testimonials and present your learning. This assignment will also give you the opportunity to use a wiki for collaboration and a T-chart as a prewriting tool.
 * Project Background Info:**


 * ** Christine's Ideas of the Benefits of Collaborations ** || ** Megan's Ideas, Reflection, and Questions ** ||
 * Here are some of my own ideas of the benefits of collaboration to:

Students: -Benefit of both the teacher's and librarian's knowledge -Different students may respond better to different personalities--having 2 people increases the possibility of a positive interaction with the students. -Students are exposed to different teaching styles. -Students are exposed to different ideas. -Students are exposed to new technology. -Students learn new skills.

-Another person shares in the work. -Feel less overwhelmend with help -Able to see students from another person's perspective -Collaboration has been shown to improve student achievement, which makes them look good. -Can reflect with another person on what worked and did not work so improvement can occur. -Has a wide range of resources from which to choose
 * Teachers**:

Librarians: -Feel important and respected -Treated as equals to other teachers in the building -Interact with and get to know the teachers, students, and staff -Get to see their ideas come to life -Show administrators that they are a valuable asset to the building -Can show teachers, parents, and students that they are of value -Seen as an integral part of the staff -Library jobs will be less likely to be cut -Opportunity to teach information skills to the students -Know that they are doing what a school librarian should be doing -Able to document all activities

Administrators: -Building has high academic achievement , which makes them look good -May see how well the librarian and teachers work as a team and decide to become part of the team instead of just a supervisor -Can tell other administrators how well the librarian and teachers work together in the building -Better informed as to what types of teaching and learning is happening in the building || **Student Benefits** - Students receive information presented in different ways - A variety of resources are more readily available to students

- Teachers can learn from librarians and vice versa - Technology support--links technology to the subject area curricula and library skills - Information literacy support in the classroom
 * Teacher Benefits**

- Librarians can prove to administration that collaboration supports and strengthens the curriculum - Librarians can learn from teachers and vice versa.
 * Librarian Benefits**
 * -** Librarians are more likely to be viewed as a leader/learning specialist on campus

- School leadership support from the teacher-librarian - Collaboration reduces the student-teacher ratio, thus the needs of more students are met and it is more likely for higher achievement on standardized tests
 * Administrator Benefits**

How does classroom-library collaboration create a leadership opportunity for school librarians? Where should positive teacher-librarian collaboration begin? During student-teaching/beginning of a teacher's career?
 * Questions**

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