The Library Collaboration and Flexible Scheduling Toolkit: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Appropriate for experienced elementary librarians as well as students in school library preparation programs, this powerful book explains the advantages of utilizing a flexible schedule with collaboration as compared to a fixed schedule without collaboration. • Provides a succinct and accessible yet complete explanation of research about collaboration • Supplies practical guidance for moving towards a collaborative methodology, including methods to approach the administration to win support, a training plan for staff, and team planning strategies • Explains the many side benefits of collaboration, including lowered student-to-teacher ratios, better accommodation of individual student differences, more physical and personnel resources, and higher student achievement • Addresses how to incorporate the library assistant into collaboration as well as what to do if there is no assistant • Identifies methods for handling a variety of personalities and common situational issues or difficulties