Re: [LM_NET] GEN: Why don't teachers want to collaborate?

[June Keuhn <jhkeuhn@YAHOO.COM>]

Could it also be because they aren't taught to collaborate in school. It isn't a 
skill. If it was worked into the teacher prep program, maybe it would be more 
successful.
   
  June Keuhn

Juliann Moskowitz <juliann14@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
  It's the time of year when I have to write a self-reflection document for my 
supervisor. One of the questions that we are supposed to address is on 
collaboration.

It has been my experience that few teachers come in to talk to us (me and my 
co-librarian) about what project their class will be working on. They just sign up 
for library time. Even when we talk to the teachers after they come in with the 
class and show them databases or websites or books that can help their classes with 
research, very few of them will come in NEXT time to ask for our help.

Why is that? Obviously the students can research more effectively with our help. I 
even had a teacher come in last week and his kids were researching biographical 
information so I told him we have a subscription biographical database that his 
students can use and he didn't even share that information with his students! I was 
dumbfounded.

Why do *you* think teachers don't collaborate? I will post a hit if anyone is 
interested.**************************** Juliann T. Moskowitz Library Media 
Specialist Norwalk High School Norwalk, CT 06851 juliann14@hotmail.com Reading is a 
means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your 
own.--Charles Scribner, Jr. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from 
the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future—Sydney J Harris, 
journalist (1917-1986)
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  June H. Keuhn, Librarian
  Corning East High School
  Corning, NY
  jkeuhn@cppmail.com
   
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