Mark Aaron Polger, Scott Sheidlower

Engaging Diverse Learners (eBook, PDF)

Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction. Drawing on the literatures of adult education and of teaching skills, Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians presents a wide range of methods to improve how you teach. Coauthors Mark Aaron Polger and Scott Sheidlower argue that in order to grab-and hold onto-students' attention, instructors must get their interest right from the beginning. The techniques they suggest explain how to take into consideration the range of different learning styles students may have, how to accommodate students with different English language skills or abilities, and how to successfully work with individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds or from different technologically adapted generations. The sections for each group address the key questions of identification (who are they?); how members of that group tend to react to libraries, librarians, and education; and how educational theories of that time affected students' learning in that generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440838514
• Artikelnr.: 68184064

Autorenporträt

Mark Aaron Polger is assistant professor and First Year Experience librarian at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Scott Sheidlower is associate professor and head of circulation, reserves, and archivist at York College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments A Short Introduction: "OMG," Another Library Lesson!
Chapter 1 Defining Engagement Chapter 2 The Generations of Learners
Chapter 3 Examining Diverse Learning Groups Chapter 4 Teaching Techniques
That Engage Learners Chapter 5 Engaging beyond the Library Classroom
Chapter 6 Understanding Disengagement Chapter 7 Marketing Information
Literacy through Successful Engagement Practices Epilogue Appendix
References Index