Upon Further Reflection of Lesson 5

…A Short Anecdote on Cooperative Planning

Upon further reflection of lesson five I wanted to comment on the section on cooperative planning and teaching.  Near the end of the lesson, it is stated that in order for students to learn important information skills teachers and teacher librarians need to work together.  I whole heartedly agree with this statement.  In order to demonstrate this I want to share a brief anecdote.

Two years ago my school had time built into the timetable for staff to collaborate and work together.  I joined a group in which teachers from different subject areas would work cooperatively with each other (and the TL) to create cross-curricular learning activities.  During this time I was able to develop amazing learning activities for students which incorporated French with Social Studies and Foods.  What this experience demonstrated to me was that by working together we could better meet the needs of students (in this case creating meaningful and engaging activities).

If cooperative planning can be done in this format to teach French, Social Studies and Foods, I would assume that teachers and TL’s could work together to develop activities which support proper referencing skills.