Joan Kaplowitz—Transform Your Teaching
A Website for Information Literacy Instruction Librarians
Recommended Reading
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Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice by Includes discussions of outcomes, teaching techniques, assessment, and active learning as well as many other information literacy topics. Authors are currently working on 2nd edition, which will be available in 2009.
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Learning to Lead and Manage Information Literacy Instruction by Builds on Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice. Covers topics such as leadership, management, collaboration, research and grant writing, marketing and managing technology. Helps you acquire skills that will enable you to move on to a leadership and management role in ILI.
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Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program edited by A wonderful collection of essays on all aspects of Information Literacy. Includes perspectives from administrators and faculty as well as librarians. Although the bulk of the book deals with academic settings, information literacy instruction in public and school libraries each gets its own chapter.
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Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice by An excellent introduction to the underlying principles of Learner-Centered Teaching. Lots of great examples of how you can invite your learners into the process and give them more responsibility for their own learning.
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What the Best College Teachers Do by Covers all aspects of teaching from writing outcomes to assessing those outcomes. Contains inspirational conversations with exemplary college teachers.
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Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum: Practical Models for Transformation by Looks at all aspects of incorporating and promoting information literacy in academic settings. Covers topics such as Developing Faculty-Librarian Partnerships in Information Literacy; Successful Strategies for Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum; and Assessing Information Literacy.
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Creating the One-shot Library Workshop: A Step-by-step Guide by Takes you through the development process in a well-organized and understandable fashion. Good material on outcomes and assessment.
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life by The classic and inspirational work about what it means to be a teacher.
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Universal Teaching Strategies by Deals with every aspect of instruction — planning, writing outcomes, presentation, assessment etc. Although aimed at K–12 teachers, the pedagogical principles and practices can be applied to any type of teaching including information literacy instruction.
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Information Literacy Instruction Handbook edited by
A collection of articles on key issues in ILI written by experts in the field. Covers such topics as the History of Information Literacy; the Psychology of Learning: Connecting Teaching to Practice; Teaching; Collaboration; Leadership; Diversity and Instructional Technologies.
Learner-centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning by Lots of great suggestions for being learning-centered in both your teaching and your assessment efforts. Highlights relationship between outcomes and assessment.