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Schomberg, J., McCabe, B., & Fink, L. (2003, October). TAG Team: Collaborate to Teach, Assess and Grow. //Teacher Librarian//, //31//(1), 8-11. Retrieved October 5, 2009, from Academic Search Complete database.

Collaboration between teachers and librarians is essential/beneficial to all.

"Our comprehensive goal was to collaboratively plan, deliver and assess instructional units that focused on not only content and product, but more specifically on the importance of the research process as well as the formal assessment of that process." "We determined five necessary phases and steps in our collaborative process: planning, instruction, information gathering, product and assessment." Interesting how these mimic the inquiry process. Planning - standards, prior knowledge, directinstruction, graphic organizers, final product, develop assessment tools, Instruction - model process to give clear picture Info gathering - select resources, note-taking, organize info, Product - synthesize & communicate Assessment This article stresses the importance of modeling the process. Reassessing of unit by the teachers (hmm like students self evaluating and adjusting for next project) "Our journey to effective instructional collaboration and student-involved assessment continues to be anything but linear as we move back and forth between steps and components." A growing changing process that learns from itself.