Collaborating with colleague in completing Stage 1

The person I am doing the integrated unit with is our middle school librarian. We are going to teach the students researching skills. We have been discussing this unit for a quite a few weeks now. When we formally sat down, we went step-by-step through stage 1. Starting with MLR. What she will be doing next year fits perfectly with ELA’s, MLR.

She had many questions about how the essential question and understanding lined up. I showed her the book that we are using and she found it very helpful. We also spent a lot of time on the six faucets of understanding. Jen and I started to outline her stage 1. We were very excited about how this would look and what the students would get from this unit.

I am the middle school department head and have shown this process and this unit to my department. The department has decided to teach the same unit and also integrate with the librarian. This would be very beneficial to our students.