Theme: "Student-Centered Active Learning"
Learning Outcomes: After today's session, librarians will be able to:
- Design and implement active learning exercises and integrate them into lesson plans in order to give students hands-on practice and to maximize student learning.
- Refer to a toolkit of collaboratively created student-centered learning activities that they will be able to integrate into lesson plans in order to maximize student learning.
- Change the energy or flow of instruction sessions in order to hold students’ attention and maximize student learning.
Activities:
- In preparation for today's session, librarians were asked to bring a list of active learning exercises that they had either used themselves or heard about. We listed all of those on the board.
- How would you apply these to the learning outcomes you wrote yesterday? Which exercises would work well with which outcomes?
- Things we mentioned along the way:
- The "ten-minute" rule (don't do any one thing for more than 10 minutes at a time).
- The "no demonstration" lesson plan - and why it might be problematic.
- How the culture and expectations of a particular course influence students' expectations in the library classroom.
Active Learning Toolkit (Word document)
Whiteboard (photos):
Worksheet that Catherine uses in class to help students brainstorm keywords and search terms, and combine them into a Boolean search string: Brainstorming Keywords Worksheet. (Word document)
Suggested Readings:
