Phase 4: Formal Collaboration
- "Ultimately technology may transform the educational content and motivate students toward life-long learning"
- (NCREL, 1999)
The ultimate step in implementing the IMPACT model is creating collaborative planning times. Using this time, the school library media coordinator, technology facilitator, and classroom teachers collaboratively will:
- Plan together to create and evaluate multidisciplinary units of instruction integrating technology/information skills across the curriculum;
- Design differentiated instructional activities to meet individual student needs;
- Identify regular common planning time for team collaboration by grade level and subject;
- Assess student products emerging from collaboratively planned units of instruction (New assessment tools and rubrics should be created as needed.);
- Celebrate student achievement and recognize teachers for their successes;
- Evaluate the outcomes of common planning times using a variety of methods such as surveys, reflections, and plus/delta charts.
