Collaboration

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As a media specialist, I would provide any services I could to support the teacher. My job as I see it is, "to ease the teacher's workload". Anything I can take off their plate and do for them, I try to do. If that means creating bibliographies of books and resources available in our school library, I do that. If it means pulling books and checking them out or searching for appropriate websites and internet resources, I do that. If it means sitting down and planning a unit because two heads are better than one, then I do that. Ultimately, I am here to make the job of the teacher easier...to promote learning and collaboration, to inquire with another adult just as we ask our students to do.

For the second grade unit, the teacher and I will be co-teaching while students create their Comic Life pages. This will be done in the Media Center where 18 student computers are located. As a springboard to this unit, I will also be reading __Where the Wild Things Are__ by Maurice Sendak.

For the fourth grade unit, the teacher and I will be co-teaching for the entire unit. We will meet in the Media Center where there are 18 student computers located and plenty of space to hold the legislative session.