Mini Book of Teaching Tips for Librarians

This is a mini book of (short) general teaching tips and examples of actual teaching interventions suitable for any librarian who teaches information skills. Not designed to read through as a complete text, but dipped into and referred back to in order to improve our teaching skills.

This is a mini book of (short) general teaching tips and examples of actual teaching interventions suitable for any librarian who teaches information skills. Not designed to read through as a complete text, but dipped into and referred back to in order to improve our teaching skills.

Introduction 1Active Learning 3
All the things 4
Assessment Types 5
Attention Span 6
Bloom's Taxonomy 7
Blended Learning 8
Differentiation 9
Differing viewpoints 10
Embodied Cognition 11
Flipped Classroom 12
Large Groups 13
Learning Styles 14
Lesson plans 15
Learning objectives 16
Mini Librarians 17
New teaching ideas 18
Plan for additional needs 19
Preparation 20
Problem Based Learning 21
Reflection 22
Scaffolding 23
Setting expectations 24
Assessment - Stand up, sit down 26
Assessment - What do you know? 27
Assessment - Bag of fears 28
Assessment - True & False 29
Assessment - I felt my way to a better search... 30
Assessment - Poster tours 32
Assessment - One minute paper 33
Feedback - By plane 34
Feedback - Stop, Start, Continue 35
Feedback - Tell me one thing 36
Feedback - If the session was an animal... 37
Feedback - Focus 38
Information Sources - CRAAP test house 39
Information Sources - Cut & Paste 40
Information Sources - Identify some characteristics. 41
Information Sources - A quality investigation 42
Information Sources - Top sources 43
Information Sources - Jigsaws 44
Search - Boolean mix and match 45
Search - Building a literature review 46
Search - Hang your search up 48
Search - Make a Recipe 49
Search - What animal are you? 50
Search - Follow the clues 52
Warm ups - Hidden questions 53
Warm ups - Music 54
Warm ups - Pass the parcel 55
Warm ups - Quick Question 56
Give me feedback please! 57