Collaborating with Administrators and Educational Support Staff (Best Practices for School Library Media Professionals) (Best Practices for School Library ... for School Library Media Professionals) - Softcover

Lesley S. J. Farmer

9781555705725: Collaborating with Administrators and Educational Support Staff (Best Practices for School Library Media Professionals) (Best Practices for School Library ... for School Library Media Professionals)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555705723 ISBN 13: 9781555705725

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2007

You stand at the hub of today s learning community, working with students and teachers across all curricula, at all grade and ability levels, and across all subjects. This unique new resource gives you proven, practical techniques and strategies for reaching out to faculty and students...and then goes further to give successful collaboration ideas for working with educational service providers, such as reading specialists, special education teachers, counselors, technology staff, and principals and other administrators. Farmer outlines the fundamentals of collaboration, tips for working with multiple levels of administrators, and techniques for assessing the effects of collaboration on student success. Become a collaborative leader with this must-have resource.

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About the Author:

Lesley S. J. Farmer coordinates the Library Media Teacher program at California State University Long Beach, where she also serves as a reference librarian for the university s library. She is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Technology Infused Instruction for the Educational Community (Scarecrow, 2004) and Information Literacy Assessment in K-12 Settings (Scarecrow, 2007).

From School Library Journal:

While most school library media specialists recognize that collaboration with administrators and service personnel is essential for a successful library program, many are not sure how to accomplish it. Farmer begins by exploring how schools work, the role of the library media specialist, and the background on collaboration. She then discusses, in some depth, how to work with different levels of administrators and key service personnel, such as technology directors, reading specialists, special-education educators, pupil services personnel, and physical health and co-curricular personnel. Farmer concludes with ways of measuring the impact of collaboration and improving literacy, and provides suggestions for becoming a collaborative leader. This book is a must for school districts and a school library media specialists' personal collections, and would also work well as a textbook for library science instructors.–Janet Hilbun, Texas Woman's University, Denton
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