Prewriting+T-Chart

=Prewriting T-Chart for Benefits of Classroom-Library Collaboration to Students and Classroom Teachers= = =

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 * = =Benefits to Students= ||= =Benefits to Classroom Teachers= ||
 * ==== More individualized attention with two teachers (Peggy) ====

"Kids feel the library is their classroom" (Peggy)
|| ==== Enables more planning and lots more ideas (Peggy) ====

Teachers feed off of each other (Peggy)
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 * ==== Authentic learning for students (Judy P) ====

Learn how to find answers to questions on own (Judy P)
|| ==== Teacher-librarian collaboration important for educator (Judy P) ====

Can take curriculum deeper (Judy P)
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 * ==== Desire to incorporate prior knowledge into new lessons (Tracy) ==== || ==== Has expanded instruction (Tracy) ==== ||
 * ==== "Impacts academic achievement of every student" (Paula) ====

Helps students effectively evaluate sites during research (Paula)
|| ==== Helps teachers with curriculum (Paula) ====

Has global perspective of building (Paula)
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 * ==== Kids buy into and enjoy lessons in the library (Mary Ann) ====

Taught students reading, research, and presentation (Mary Ann)
|| ==== An experience for teachers as well as students (Mary Ann) ====

Pleasure to work with (Mary Ann)
|| “Helped the students learn and become more successful.” (7th Grade Social Studies Teacher: Pat) ||  Assisted the teacher in teacher development by teaching a skill to the students that the teacher did not have. She modeled the teaching process to the teacher until the teacher felt comfortable with her skill level and was able to teach the skill to the student. (7th Grade Social Studies Teacher: Pat)
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 || “guided our knowledge”, made connections, taught with common vocabulary that transfers back to classroom and “travels across the curriculum,” and “gets the students into the library and makes each student ‘s learning experience more valuable to them.” (8th Grade Language Arts Teacher: Karen) ||  Teacher Librarian = welcoming, provides materials and computer assistance, and teaches skills with “great detail.” (8th Grade Language Arts Teacher: Karen) || (High School Art Teacher: Diane) ||< The teacher librarian “helped more fully integrate the research and writing process into my courses.” (High School Art Teacher: Diane) || Together they created a rubric and supplementary documentation to improve the student’s learning environment. (High School Student Teacher: Kelly) ||< The teacher librarian listened to the student teacher’s main idea, and then returned with several additional ideas to enhance the main idea. (High School Student Teacher: Kelly) || (High School Teacher: Sherri) ||< Started with a nebulous idea and came to the teacher librarian who was able to help specify the project by suggesting research and technology options. She was willing to lend her expertise. (High School Teacher: Sherri) ||
 * Teacher Librarian =helps students internalize new knowledge,
 * < “helped me to use rubrics for student self-evaluation.”
 * < 100% of the kids were engaged and completed the project.

=Works Cited for Testimonials= "7 th Grade Language Arts Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=125112&title=7th_Grade_Language_Arts_Teacher__] >. "7 th Grade Social Studies Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://www.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=121980&title=7th_Grade_Social_Studies_Teacher__] >. "8 th Grade Language Arts Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=125114&title=8th_Grade_Language_Arts_Teacher__] >. "Elementary Art Instructor." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=121834&title=Elementary_Art_Instructor__] > "High School Art Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=121840&title=High_School_Art_Teacher__] >. "High School Student Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=125103&title=High_School_Student_Teacher__] >. "High School Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=125106&title=High_School_Teacher__] >. "Kindergarten Teacher." Interview by Judi Moreillon. Web. 19 Sept. 2009. < [|__http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=121832&title=Kindergarten_Teacher__]