Mary Fobbs-Guillory
CO
Ainsworth, L. (2016). Teacher and teacher librarian collaborative inquiry. Teacher Librarian, 44(2), pp. 28-31.
This article gives a detailed account of a co-teaching experience between a 5th grade teacher and a teacher librarian in Canada. The class was studying Inuit culture and the skill of questioning. The article documents the process of the professionals planning the lesson together and then teaching the class in two groups. This method is also called Station teaching because the students rotate from being taught by one professional to the next. The teacher librarian created a short video on challenging vocabulary for students to view ahead of time and posted it to the class blog. The teachers taught how to ask questions and provided them with question builder frames and rubrics. They read books, facilitated discussions, and provided artifacts and art prints from the local museum for the students to analyze and develop questions about.
This article gave a very detailed account of the lesson, I felt as though I watched it. It gave me a full picture of what co-teaching looks like and how fun and powerful it can be.
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