Learn from collaboration masters! Read all about award-winning, standards-based collaboration projects that you can reproduce in your school setting.
Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners is a compilation of some of the best collaborative lessons taught by elementary, middle, and high school media specialists and teachers. In this idea-rich volume, the TEAMS winners share their award-winning projects with you-in a format that makes it easy to adapt to your own students and programs.
Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners offers detailed unit plans for projects at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levels-projects singled out for their clearly demonstrated collaborative nature, positive impact on student learning and achievement, support from school leadership, and the ability for others to replicate the project. Projects come with their creators' expert advice, examples, and strategies that will help you get staff and students excited and involved in true all-school learning. Innovative, classroom-proven, and imminently workable, these are the projects that show just how effective and captivating creative collaboration can be.
Offers award-winning collaborative lessons that are easily adaptable to your classroom
Provides sample documents, i.e., a knowledge survey, interactive test, writing challenge, and parent permission letter
Figures present important data and information, including standards for the 21st-century learner, and NCTE/IRA standards for the English language arts
Presents a bibliography of works cited
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"For school media specialists looking for innovative ideas on how to collaborate with teachers to create a buzz around learning and literacy, this book is a must have." - ARBAonline "The collaborative lesson plans and units compiled here have been classroom-tested by elementary through secondary media specialists and teachers who are winners of the Gale Library Media Connection TEAMS Award. Projects are presented in a consistent format, with a project overview, timeline, notes on the roles of the teacher and the media specialist, and advice on measuring success, funding the project, materials and resources, and sustaining the project. Projects range from an author's night for elementary grades, through high school units on using graphic novels with ESL students and advanced academic literacies. Numerous examples of surveys, parent letters, rubrics, student self-assessments, and other materials are provided." - Reference & Research Book News "This is a useful selection, especially for someone wanting to try a new collaboration, but coming up a little short on ideas. Recommended." - Library Media Connection
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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978-1-58683-349-7 (9781586833497)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kate Vande Brake is a former journalist with several years' experience working in K-12 public education as a communications specialist.
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
National Standards and the Collaborative Units
SECTION I: ELEMENTARY COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 1: Authors' Night
Betsey Kennedy and Barbara Powell-Schager Big Shanty Elementary School, Georgia
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 2: The Global Schoolhouse Project
Cally Flickinger and Jennifer Opel Chamberlin School, Vermont
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 3: Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills
T. K. Cassidy and Betsy Thornton Dug Gap Elementary School, Georgia
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 4: Thinking Like a Scientist
Mary Karlovec and Anne Michael Windsor Elementary School, Ohio
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
SECTION II: MIDDLE SCHOOL COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 5: Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now?
Barbara Adair, Rick Norman, John Scrivano, and Dana Thompson New Smyrna Beach Middle School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 6: Mathematical Nightmares
Nelle Cox, Shari Galgano, and JoAnn Reynolds Dover Air Base Middle School, Delaware
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 7: One Book, One School
Chris Altobello, David Guest, Kendra Hamby, John McCollum, Debbie Pace, Sharon Scott, Brooks Spencer, LaDonna Walker, and Susan Wilson Osceola Middle School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
SECTION III: HIGH SCHOOL COLLABORATION UNITS
CHAPTER 8: Teen Expressions
Lorraine Grochowski and Corrine Richardson Booker T. Washington Senior High School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 9: Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students
Leila "Bee" Manship and Chasity Markle Concord High School, North Carolina
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 10: Internet Safety
Billie Esser and Mary Anne Knowles Jefferson West High School, Kansas
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 11: Advanced Academic Literacies
Michaelyn Hein, Martha Hickson, Mary Loder, Caitlin Ryan, and Lauren Sheldon North Hunterdon High School, New Jersey
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
CHAPTER 12: Culinary Reading Program
Wilhelmina DeNunzio and Carol Faas Eastside High School, Florida
Project Overview
Timeline
Roles Defined
Measuring Success
Funding Your Project
Materials and Resources
Sustaining This Project
Works Cited
Index
