Supporting and Promoting School Librarians as Coteachers

• In Event: Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Discussing Library Research

Abstract

Project CATALYST is a three-year professional development program for public and school library media specialists (LMS) that emphasizes librarian- teacher collaboration and school-public library partnerships for the purpose of fostering literacy and information literacy skills. The project adopts the integrated instruction model (Montiel-Overall, 2005) in which librarians co-plan, co-implement, and co-evaluate instructional activities with teachers. Evaluation of progress includes surveys of collaboration from multiple stakeholders including school and public LMS, teachers, administrators, and students in addition to circulation activity and ratings of student work. Analyses in the first year indicated a gap in perceptions between the school LMS participants, teachers, and administrators although growth was evident in perceptions of the role of the LMS as a co-teacher.

Authors

• Elizabeth J. Oyer, EvalSolutions Inc.

• Tina Tipton, Ohio Valley Education Cooperative

• Karen Larimore, Ohio Valley Education Cooperative

• Diane Goodwin, Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative

• Jason Adkins, Ohio Valley Education Cooperative