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Arming the teacher librarianUsing experiential learning & reflective practice to guide pedagogyAlan Carbery - Assistant Director, Teaching, Learning & Assessment Champlain College Library, Vermont, USA.
Twitter: @acarberyBlog: edlibbs.wordpress.comSlideshare: slideshare.net/acarbery
I teach best when I’m learning about
how I teach…
I teach best when I’m learning about
how I teach…
about how my students learn well..,
I teach best when I’m learning about
how I teach…
about how my students learn well.., and how others teach
connections
among themselves, their subjects, & their students so that students can learn to weave a world for
themselves
– Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach, p. 11.
Good teachers are able to weave a complex web of
iterative improvement- Char Booth, Reflective teaching, effective learning, p. 19.
You have to maintain the desire to learn more about yourself as an educator & the intent to commit to
What would you do differently next time?
Building a teaching identity
Entering the ‘educational chrysalis’ Katrina McDonald talks about her journey away from ‘a librarian who also teaches’; affirming herself as a librarian, practitioner, educator, and academic.
McDonald, ‘Out of the boot camp and into the chrysalis: a reflective practice case study’
teaching is hard work
Most librarians aren’t trained teachers
Most academics don’t need
a teaching qualification
So why should
we?
Tools of the trade
The Teaching Journal
to create a deeper professional practice (Thompson, 2009, p. 225).
provides a starting point for librarians to foster instructional improvement & ultimately
Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire
CIQs alert us to problems
before the problem develops
CIQs situate your teaching in an understanding of the
emotional, cognitive, political ebbs and flows of group learning
– Stephen Brookfield, The Skillful Teacher, p. 54.
Micro-teaching
Critical Peers
Case Study
“I assumed from my sessions, that it would be clear that ‘word dumps’ won’t work in literature searching.
Clearly, this isn’t the case.
I need to consider how I can incorporate into my sessions, exercises on how to generate keywords”
“The brainstorming at the start was very helpful as it
showed us how to start working on our literature review”
“Brainstorming for keywords to use in the database
search was the moment that I felt most engaged with what was happening.”
“I think students felt that what I was showing them
was all in context, relevant, practical and useful”
Yeah, I don’t need therapy
Time
Building a teaching portfolio
Let’s Talk PedagogyTwitter: @acarbery
Blog: edlibbs.wordpress.com
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Arming the teacher librarian: using experiential learning & reflective practice to guide pedagogy Alan CarberyAssistant Library Director – Teaching Learning & Assessment, Champlain College e: [email protected] twitter: @acarbery Blog: http://edlibbs.wordpress.com Further Reading Booth, C. (2011) Reflective teaching, effective learning: instruction literacy for library educators. Chicago: American Library Association. Brookfield, S. (1995) Becoming a critically reflective teacher. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. Brookfield, S. (2006) The Skillful Teacher: on technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom, 2nd ed. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. MacDonald, K. (2009) ‘Out of the boot camp and into the chrysalis: a reflective practice case study’, The Australian Library Journal, 58 (1), pp. 17-27 McGuinness, C. (2011) Becoming confident teachers: a guide for academic librarians. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. Moon, J. (1999) Reflection in Learning & Professional Development: theory and practice. London: RoutledgeFalmer. Ottesen, E. (2007) ‘Reflection in teacher education’, Reflective Practice, 8 (1), pp. 31-46. Palmer, P.J. (2007) The courage to teach: exploring the inner landscape of a teacher’s life. San Francisco, Wiley. Tompkins, E.K. (2009) ‘A reflective Teaching Journal: an instructional improvement tool for academic librarians’, College & Undergraduate Libraries, 16 (4), pp. 221-238.
