Collaborative Units that Work - by Kate Vande Brake (Paperback)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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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