Suzy Pepper Rollins

Ms. Rollins is an experienced and obviously successful teacher with unmotivated learners who suffer every day with remedia work that is unlikely to succeed either in raising test scores or helping kids succeed either in life or in school. She uses direct teaching methods and helps the teacher get students motivated, understand clear and relevant learning objectives, master vocabulary, and get the confidence to get going and keep going toward successful mastery. But, our teacher has never worked with the librarian down the hall; hasn’t the foggiest notion about rich information resources, exciting projects, rich information resources, and most of all a great coteacher right down the hall. And, so we meet again a method for the isolated teacher in the isolated classroom and if you would only do my 1,2,3, 4,5, and 6, the magic would happen. Is this book really worth reading? Teacher librarians know all about teachers who take risks to coteach along side them. They also are mystified by the wall that separates Rollins’ classroom from the library learning commons. How do we pry the lid of the classroom open? First, I think we try to understand a person like Rollins who has her technique down pat and then look for interventions that would increase her method first as we start to bend it into a more collaborative stance. Doe that make sense? We often say that teachers like Rollins should not be a part of our effort because we would be just watering rocks. And, while she is not the type to work with our efforts at the first round of our program or even the second round of efforts, she poses a challenge that is very tempting to engage with. It will take friendship and trust as we move in on this unsuspecting great teacher to make her even grater. Read this book? I would say only if you have a disciple in the crowd of teachers or a principal touting her method. Otherwise, there are pleanty of other teachers with more open and willing attitudes to engage.… (plus d'informations)