For strategies in elementary settings where a fixed schedule exists,
see Collaboration at the K-6 Level.
Outreach to Faculty
- Introduce faculty to the Collaboration Rubric during a professional development session.
- Promote planning.
- Plan backwards: ie. start with your outcomes. Ask teachers what information skills they would like to focus on.
- Design a research guide that can be used on many types of projects.
- Offer to create that research guide that complements the content handouts.
- Be positive and enthusiastic about teachers' ideas.
- Start with one faculty or group and build success.
- Ask teachers to rate your collaboration using the Collaboration Continuum Rubric.
- Provide teachers with the Chapter 127 guidelines on research skills.
Personal Professional Development
- Get comfortable creating rubrics and authentic assessments.
- Be involved in the leadership of your school.
Other Strategies
- Develop Information Literacy Standards based on the Maine Learning Results. (See examples)
- Get on the planning committees for any major exit exhibitions that involve research and promote information literacy skills as outcomes.
