- 128 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Learn from collaboration masters! Read all about award-winning, standards-based collaboration projects that you can reproduce in your school setting. Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners is a compilation of some of the best collaborative lessons taught by elementary, middle, and high school media specialists and teachers. In this idea-rich volume, the TEAMS winners share their award-winning projects with youâin a format that makes it easy to adapt to your own students and programs. Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners offers detailed unit plans for projects at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levelsâprojects singled out for their clearly demonstrated collaborative nature, positive impact on student learning and achievement, support from school leadership, and the ability for others to replicate the project. Projects come with their creators' expert advice, examples, and strategies that will help you get staff and students excited and involved in true all-school learning. Innovative, classroom-proven, and imminently workable, these are the projects that show just how effective and captivating creative collaboration can be.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- National Standards and the Collaborative Units
- SECTION I Elementary Collaboration Units
- C H A P T E R 1 Authorsâ Night
- C H A P T E R 2 The Global Schoolhouse Project
- C H A P T E R 3 Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills
- C H A P T E R 4 Thinking Like a Scientist
- SECTION II Middle School Collaboration Units
- C H A P T E R 5 Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now?
- C H A P T E R 6 Mathematical Nightmares
- C H A P T E R 7 One Book, One School
- SECTION III High School Collaboration Units
- C H A P T E R 8 Teen Expressions
- C H A P T E R 9 Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students
- C H A P T E R 10 Internet Safety
- C H A P T E R 11 Advanced Academic Literacies
- C H A P T E R 12 Culinary Reading Program
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Editor