School Librarian and Teacher Candidate Collaboration

Change in teacher attitudes toward teacher-librarian collaboration begins in teacher preparation programs (Conderman & Johnston-Rodriguez, 2009). Through the assignment detailed in this chapter, teacher candidates prepared for teaching with a basic understanding that collaboration with school librarians could enhance their lessons. In turn, school librarian candidates engaged in a collaborative exercise, working with these future teachers. The authors describe the process for this collaborative project and present various rubrics, templates, and direction sheets used in the assignment. Qualitative responses and reflections on the collaborative experience are reported for both the teacher and school library candidates.