More than just Recycling: Transforming Information Literacy

through High-Impact Discipline-Specific

Instruction

Natalie Burclaff, Claire Holmes, S. Mike KielACRL 2015

#acrltransformativeinfolit

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More than just Recycling: Transforming Information Literacy

through High-Impact Discipline-Specific

Instruction

Natalie Burclaff, Claire Holmes, S. Mike KielACRL 2015

#acrltransformativeinfolit

Stephen “Mike” KielUniversity of Baltimoreskiel@ubalt.eduI now tweet @ Smikiel.

HIST295 – The Historian’s Toolkit- Historical Research methods class at the beginning of the degree program- Several years of librarian involvement

Claire HolmesTowson University cholmes@towson.eduI tweet @TUEdLibrarian.

Elementary Education Courses:•Children's Literature & Other Materials for Reading and Language Arts in Elementary School•Teaching Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Classroom

Natalie BurclaffUniversity of Baltimore

nburclaff@ubalt.edu

I lurk @NattieBur.

Marketing CourseMarketing Management,an information literacy-intensive coursefor business majors

4 Common/Transformative Themes:

Discipline-Specific Priorities

Collaboration

Instruction Techniques

Assessment Strategies

Identifying Discipline-Specific Priorities

Think-Pair-Share Identify your instructional priorities related to information literacy in your liaison area.

Priorities- History

• Navigating Archives and Special Collections

•Using sources to describe “context”

•Chicago Citations

Priorities- Education • Promote student success on key course assignments

•Inspire students to integrate children’s literature into content area lesson planning

•Model teacher-librarian collaboration

•Facilitate readiness to teach K-12 info lit (digital citizenship)

Priorities - Marketing

• Identify the data needed

• Apply data and analysis to marketing concepts

• Cite information from business research

Collaboration

Please share with a show of hands… •Is there a faculty member who advocates for the library in the departments for which you provide instruction?

•Do you have regular access to course assignments?

Collaboration – History

• One very devoted Faculty member• Teaching repeatedly and exclusively

• Enabling overhaul of scheduling and content• 5 sessions every other week• Assignment redesign

Collaboration - Education

•Build in essential co-planning time

•Leverage access to learning management system (Blackboard) and course information

•Practice effective co-teaching

Collaboration – Marketing

• Right time, right place, right person

• Former Dean of the Business School

• New faculty member

Instruction Techniques

Instruction Techniques– History

• Using personal examples• The pocket watch

• Hands on archive experience• Experiential Learning

• Practice, Practice, Practice• Evaluation in multiple media

Instruction Techniques- Education

•Flipped model – self-paced tutorial module

•In– class group activities

•Children’s books read aloud in pairs

•Rubric used to examine cultural relevance

•Collaborative content creation

Instruction Techniques - Marketing

• Team work

• Worksheets (!)

• Depth vs. Breadth

• Applied learning

Instruction Techniques

Write on your post-it note:

Given the learning priority you identified earlier, which instructional technique(s) do you think are the most effective?

Assessment Strategies – History

• Guided practical assessment• Museum Description• Rubric based

• In class mini-research• “Find an article relating to the historical context of a relative”

Assessment Strategies - Education

•Scavenger hunt activity

•Exit ticket: “today’s takeaway”

•Google doc to anchor group’s work & report out (and provide data)

•Reflective blog post

Assessment strategies - Marketing

• Formative– Worksheet

– Group discussion

• Rubric– Position

– Relevance

– Use

– Style

– Seamlessness

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THANK YOU!

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Natalie Burclaff, Claire Holmes, S. Mike KielACRL 2015

#acrltransformativeinfolit