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Teaching FirstYear College Students: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Volume 58) (Practical Guides for Librarians, 58),Used
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The firstyear experience is an emerging hot topic in academic libraries, and many librarians who work with firstyear students are interested in best practices for engaging and retaining them. Professional discussion and interest groups, conferences, and vendorsponsored awards for librarians working with firstyear students are popping up left and right. A critical aspect of libraries in the firstyear experience is effective information literacy instruction for firstyear students.Research shows that, despite growing up in a world rife with technology and information, students entering college rarely bring with them the conceptual understandings and critical habits of thinking needed for finding, evaluating, and ethically using information in both academic and realworld contexts. Faculty in upperlevel courses expect students to learn about the research process in their first year of college, and instructors in the firstyear curriculum expect librarians to teach this to their students. Despite all this, designing, teaching, and evaluating effective information literacy instruction specifically for firstyear students is not necessarily intuitive for instruction librarians. That is why Teaching FirstYear College Students: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a comprehensive, howto guide for both new and experienced librarians interested in planning, teaching, and assessing library instruction for firstyear students. The book:Examines the related histories of library instruction and firstyear experience initiatives Summarizes and synthesizes empirical research and educational theory about firstyear students as learners and novice researchers Establishes best practices for engaging firstyear students through active learning and inclusive teaching Features excerpts from interviews with a number of instruction librarians who work with firstyear students in a range of positions and instructional contexts Includes examples of activities, lesson plans, and assessment ideas for firstyear library instruction for common firstyear course scenarios Includes a template to use for library instruction lesson planningWritten by a library instruction coordinator with a graduate degree in FirstYear Studies and a firstyear instruction librarian, Teaching FirstYear College Students: A Practical Guide for Librarians is the first comprehensive, howto guide for both new and experienced librarians interested in planning, coordinating, teaching, and assessing library instruction for firstyear students.
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