As I get ready to begin the collaborative unit plan there are a lot of things that are going through my mind. I hope that his project will help me see what the media specialist can offer in terms of collaboration. I have never had the chance to work with a media specialist before and have no idea what to expect. With no experience in this area, I don't know what will and will not work when it comes to collaboration. Although I know that we all have a lot to learn, it will be interesting to work with someone who has a least been exposed to the school library media center.
I am a little disappointed that we are not working with a teacher partner of our choice. I had planned on working with another teacher at my school that has a very similar teaching style to my own. Although I know that I will have to work with teachers in very different styles it would have been nice to start off with someone who plans similarly to me. I was also looking forward to the opportunity to visit a school media center to get some ideas, but have found with the new partnerships that it would be more convenient for me to be the classroom teacher since I am currently teaching now.
Being a current teacher will be a strength for me in this project since lesson planning is part of my daily job duties. I will be able to create a lesson plan that I can use immediately and will be able to implement the collaborative information in my classroom. I also feel that being a classroom teacher will benefit my partner because she will get the opportunity to work with a teacher just as it will be once working in a school.
My weaknesses for this collaboration will be the fact that I have no experience or exposure to the media center. I do not know what it has to offer and what is available to me, especially since I cannot see the media center from which the collaboration will take place.
As for unit plan ideas I will be creating my plan for 8th grade science which is one of the subjects and grades that I currently teach. I came to this decision based on the information from my partner's background. She has access to a high school media center. In 8th grade science there are no GLCE's so for planning purposes, the high school science benchmarks are used. This should make it easier to locate resources for the unit, despite the fact that the level of the students and the media center are different.
I hope that this collaboration will benefit both myself and my partner as we continue on our educational journey to become school library media specialists.
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