Scenario

April Grizzle approached Heather Pehnec on the discussion board during module 3 for the Lesson Plan Deconstruction assignment. We formed a collaborative partnership that utilizes Heather's strengths as a children's specialist in a public library and April's strengths as an elementary school teacher librarian.
 * **Motivation of Collaborators**:

For this assignment, who is taking the role of the classroom teacher and who the school librarian?

Our first collaborative conversation took place on the Blackboard discussion board, then email, and finally via the wiki discussion board.

How did this classroom teacher and school librarian begin their collaboration? In the teacher's lounge? After a faculty meeting? After a professional development workshop?


 * ====**Instructional Goals and Standards:**====


 * Grade Level: Second Grade

Content Areas: Language Arts and Reading

Initial Goals:** The goals of this lesson are to have children compare two different types of genres of literature, fiction and nonfiction, and take the information in a nonfiction piece and create an informational presentation using a technological tool.

Students will use the information acquired from the stories read to comprehend and apply the information. Students will use a technological tool to present the information that they have acquired from their nonfiction piece of literature. I expected to see some TEKS and AASL indicators listed here.
 * Initial Objectives:** Students will use context clues and background knowledge to analyze difficult or new words from the stories read.

For some second graders, including fiction in this lesson could be confusing. It would be my suggestion that you stick to comparing the two genres and change your presentation goal to relate to this comparison - or you present only information texts to reach our stated presentation goal.

11/29 & 11/30 evenings 12/2 & 12/3 evenings 12/4 morning
 * Schedule for future collaborative planning sessions:

Will you meet online? Will you use additional tech support beyond the wiki?

Collaborative Planning Form


 * April's strengths: April's strengths include confidence and knowledge from experience in planning and presenting lessons, as well as a thorough understanding of the AASL and state standards . She is also friendly and flexible about scheduling her time.

> from a public library position. She is very flexible with my schedule and willing to work and share the responsibilities of the required projects. She does not try to control the project, but is very willing the share roles.
 * Heather's strengths: Heather's strengths are her knowledge of

Dr. M has been able to assess our collaboration through our wiki discussions and checking on page histories.
 * How administrator has been informed of the collaborative planning in process:

Yes, but in this scenario, you are serving in a K-12 school and the administrator should be informed of your collaboration. How would you keep her/him abreast of your collaborative activities in an effort to garner her/his advocacy for classroom-library coteaching and the school library program?