This paper was presented at LILAC 2013

1. Arming the
teacher librarian
Using experiential learning & reflective
practice to guide pedagogy
Alan Carbery - Assistant Director, Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Champlain College Library, Vermont, USA.
Twitter: @acarbery
Blog: edlibbs.wordpress.com
Slideshare: slideshare.net/acarbery

3. I teach best when
I‟m learning about
how I teach…

4. I teach best when
I‟m learning about
how I teach…
about how my
students
learn well..,

5. I teach best when
I‟m learning about
how I teach…
about how my
students
learn well..,
and how
others teach

6. Good teachers are able to weave a complex web of
connections
among themselves, their subjects, & their students so
that students can learn to weave a world for themselves
– Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach, p. 11.

7. You have to maintain the desire to learn more about
yourself as an educator & the intent to commit to
iterative improvement
- Char Booth, Reflective teaching, effective learning, p. 19.

8. What would you do differently next time?

9. Building a
teaching
identity

10. Entering the „educational chrysalis‟ Katrina McDonald
talks about her journey away from „a librarian who
also teaches‟; affirming herself as a librarian,
practitioner, educator, and academic.
McDonald, „Out of the boot camp and into the chrysalis: a reflective
practice case study‟

11. teaching is hard work

12. Most librarians aren‟t
trained teachers

13. Most academics don‟t need
a teaching
qualification

14. So why
should we?

15. Tools of the trade

16. The Teaching Journal

17. provides a starting point for librarians to foster
instructional improvement & ultimately
to create a deeper professional
practice (Thompson, 2009, p. 225).

18. Brookfield‟s
Critical Incident
Questionnaire

19. CIQs alert us to problems
before
the problem develops

20. CIQs situate your
teaching in an
understanding of the
emotional,
cognitive,
political
ebbs and flows of
group learning
– Stephen Brookfield, The
Skillful Teacher, p. 54.

21. Micro-
teaching

22. Critical
Peers

23. Case Study

24. “I assumed from my sessions, that it would be clear that
„word dumps‟ won‟t work in literature searching.
Clearly, this isn’t the case .
I need to consider how I can
incorporate into my sessions, exercises
on how to generate keywords”

25. “The brainstorming at the start was very helpful as it
showed us how to start working
on our literature review”

26. “Brainstorming for
keywords to use in the database search
was the moment that I felt most
engaged with what was happening.”

27. “I think students felt that what I was showing them was
all in
context, relevant, practi
cal and useful”

28. Yeah, I don‟t
need therapy

29. Time

30. Building a teaching portfolio

31. Let‟s Talk Pedagogy
Twitter: @acarbery
Blog: edlibbs.wordpress.com

32. Image Credits:
1: 096 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisbokt/4498820088/
3: Journal http://www.flickr.com/photos/94272988@N00/480306136/
7: Sydney Halo Bridge http://www.flickr.com/photos/akc77/4513185716/
8: Les pistes cyclables de Montréal peuvent être très dangereuses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39241027@N08/8105644612/
9: White man [notNTR23] http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntr23/4269951848/
10: Precious http://www.flickr.com/photos/13506489@N02/2667162885/
11: Beach Fighters http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgs_/5454110913/
13: Custom Graduation Bot http://www.flickr.com/photos/ittybittiesforyou/4809971201/in/photostream
15: Paperclips: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1223579
16: Pen, diary and glasses http://www.flickr.com/photos/46959536@N04/4827013488/
17: Danmark O, Fohn Fjord, Renodde.70°30N/26°02W http://www.flickr.com/photos/14417999@N00/76568737/
18: Bleeding Glass http://www.flickr.com/photos/mananetwork/426284281/
19: Kawaii Tooth http://www.flickr.com/photos/7315825@N04/5378867210/
20: Time Disappears http://www.flickr.com/photos/14576317@N07/2427479094/
21: Fairy Story http://www.flickr.com/photos/32968459@N08/4285420139/
22: 112. Hiatus, part 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/70544918@N00/3475520565/
23: Untitled http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyvintage/5016464980/in/photostream/
26: Just full of ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/17731548@N00/981372736/
27: Seven about to happen three different ways http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124473190@N01/15327066/
28: Eames lounge chair with ottoman http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeitlos-berlin/7779951170
29: Stand Your Ground http://www.flickr.com/photos/25346522@N02/4732030995/
30: Everything I own http://www.flickr.com/photos/13019485@N00/233894488/
31: Sharing Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/92781242@N03/8545836604/
All Flickr images used under creative commons license.
All other images retrieved from http://www.freedigitalphotos.com

33. Arming the teacher librarian: using experiential learning & reflective practice to guide pedagogy
Alan Carbery
Assistant Library Director – Teaching Learning & Assessment, Champlain College
e: acarbery@champlain.edu twitter: @acarbery
Blog: http://edlibbs.wordpress.com
Further Reading
Booth, C. (2011) Reflective teaching, effective learning: instruction literacy for library educators. Chicago: American Library Association.
Brookfield, S. (1995) Becoming a critically reflective teacher. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
Brookfield, S. (2006) The Skillful Teacher: on technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom, 2nd ed. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
MacDonald, K. (2009) ‘Out of the boot camp and into the chrysalis: a reflective practice case study’, The Australian Library Journal, 58
(1), pp. 17-27
McGuinness, C. (2011) Becoming confident teachers: a guide for academic librarians. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
Moon, J. (1999) Reflection in Learning & Professional Development: theory and practice. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Ottesen, E. (2007) ‘Reflection in teacher education’, Reflective Practice, 8 (1), pp. 31-46.
Palmer, P.J. (2007) The courage to teach: exploring the inner landscape of a teacher’s life. San Francisco, Wiley.
Tompkins, E.K. (2009) ‘A reflective Teaching Journal: an instructional improvement tool for academic librarians’, College &
Undergraduate Libraries, 16 (4), pp. 221-238.