Archive for the tag "teaching theory"
In Praise of Ideas
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is by Emily Drabinski, Electronic Resources and Instruction Librarian at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. She’s the editor (with Alana Kumbier and Maria Accardi) of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods, published by Library Juice Press. I just completed a thesis in the [...]
Posted: 2 March, 2011 in Information Literacy, Student Issues, Teaching.
Tags: kairos, library instruction, library practice, teaching theory
Comments: 7
Long Lost Motivation
In the current-day liturgy of teaching, it seems that motivating students is key. Once you have students motivated, supposedly, they will easily absorb what may otherwise seem dry or mundane. So a teacher’s plan should not be to transmit the material, but to motivate the students to learn the material for themselves while acting as [...]
Posted: 11 December, 2008 in First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy, Public Services, Teaching.
Tags: Information Literacy, motivation in teaching, teaching theory
Comments: 9