COLLABORATIVE LESSON EVALUATION

GRADE: 6th
TEACHER: Ms. Donna Smith
COLLABORATION DATES:
First meeting: February 23, 2015 at 3:30 until 4:00 (planned goals for unit/decided on preassessment survey/decided that librarian would create PowerPoint and together both of us would
find primary sources that applied to the Westward Expansion unit)
Second meeting: March 9, 2015 at 3:30 until 4:00 (planned post-assessment survey/finalized
PowerPoint and primary sources/ran through the lesson and practiced modeling a primary
source conversation that we would want the students to have)
CONTENT TOPIC: Westward Expansion
What worked well in this lesson/unit?
Students love being involved and doing things within a lesson
Made them think about what they already knew about westward expansion
Introduced them to primary sources

Was this lesson/unit enhanced through collaboration? Definitely. Always beneficial to

have all different input into a lesson to make it interesting for students.
Was it successful enough to warrant doing it again in the future? Absolutely! I feel like
the students enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. Nice to do something a little different and hands
on.
Suggestions for improvement? N/A. Students thoroughly enjoyed. I thought the level was
great and challenged them without frustration. Was great to hear the conversations taking place.

How well did the library collection respond to the unit/lesson objectives?
Scale: 5=Excellent 4=Above average 3=Average 2=Below average 1=Poor
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Diversity of formats (print, electronic)

Currency of resources
Adequacy (sufficient materials for number of students)
Appropriateness of reading/viewing/listening levels

Suggestions for additional materials? None. I thought there was great variety in the
resources.