We are excited to highlight this panel and look forward to participation from as many folks teaching in this area as possible. Hope to see you there! Lisa
ALISE Session 7.3 Juried Panel #8:
Teaching LIS Students to Teach: An “Unconference” Session
Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa
Friday, January 7, 2011
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Facilitated by: James Elmborg (Iowa), Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Illinois), Megan Oakleaf (Syracuse), Melissa Wong (Illinois/San Jose)
The session will provide LIS faculty who teach information literacy, library instruction or other courses that “teach LIS students to teach” an opportunity to share best practices for designing, conducting, and assessing these courses. The session will also integrate discussions on connecting classroom experiences to students’ field experiences, internships, and the like. By sharing strategies and assignments, LIS faculty will be able to build on successful practices in order to improve student learning and develop innovative approaches to addressing the growing demand that LIS students be prepared for educational roles.
Though the organizers of this session all teach such a course, they will not be presenting as the “experts” but rather serving as facilitators for a community-based discussion using an “unconference” format. An unconference can utilize any number of facilitation styles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference).
The session will start with Lightning Talks about challenges faced in teaching LIS students to teach. The Lightning Talks will be:
- Jim Elmborg: “To Textbook or Not, That is the Question: Selecting Course Materials” (5 min)
- Melissa Wong: “They Told Me I Should Learn to Teach: Addressing Student Anxiety” (5 min)
- Megan Oakleaf: “I Don’t Know if They Got It: Teaching Assessment and Evaluation” (5 min)
Small groups will form top discuss these or other topics of interest. The session will end with a large group discussion of approaches individuals are considering for future courses and how to share the results of such experimentation with the LIS faculty community in an ongoing way.
In addition to sharing information, this session is intended to begin to develop a community among LIS faculty who teach these courses and builds on the foundational work of the ALISE-ACRL Joint Working Group on Curriculum.
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
President, 2010-2011, Association of College and Research Libraries
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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