Gen: Collaboration with teachers

[Lisa Perez <Lperez59@AOL.COM>]

Dear Group:

As I am making the jump from elementary to high school, I too have been
thinking about how to encourage collaboration right off the bat.  I liked
what I read about keeping a notebook at your desk to encourage at least some
kind of interaction.  Then, I thought I'd take it a step further and just
make an expandable weekly template in Word.  We have a lot of computers in
the library so it wouldn't be a big hassle to type the reservation into the
template.

My idea is still evolving, but each period will list the teacher, subject,
activity, and special setup, if any.  I think I'll like the convenience and
then, if a teacher has a more detailed collaboration I may still pull out my
paper collaboration form (which will probably go digital next year).  I'm
also thinking about making my monthly principal's report only digital and
then, just e-mail it to him.  I can easily attach the library schedule for
the month, if I desire.

In any case, it will hopefully leave a professional impression about the
library schedule and collaboration.  As a bonus, if the template is password
protected (or on disk) no one could even think of writing in a book without
talking to me because a book wouldn't exist.

Lisa Perez, Librarian
Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center
Chicago, Illinois
Lperez59@aol.com

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