When it comes to teaching information literacy to patrons, librarians offer a variety of instructional techniques to help them optimize and enrich their research activities. These include various teaching strategies and multiple instructional tools, from collaborative learning to utilizing audiovisual aids to story reenactments. This interactive workshop will introduce a wide range of teaching strategies, providing examples of lesson plans that work with each one. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lesson plans or topics they are planning to cover to discuss what teaching strategies might work best for them.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Identify multiple types of teaching strategies
Understand which strategies work best for different topics
Utilize these instructional tools in their lesson plans
This two-hour, in-person workshop will take place at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central branch in the Info Commons lab.
About our presenter:
Selenay Aytac, PhD., MA, MBA, MS is Professor of University Libraries at Long Island University, New York. She received a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Bogazici University Telecommunication and Information Technologies Research Center in Istanbul. She was a library research fellow at the Princeton University Library for the AY 2019-2020. She was the recipient of 2007 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award with the paper Recent Library Practitioner Research: A Methodological Analysis and Critique.