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Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy For Library Educators (2011)

by Char Booth(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0838910521 (ISBN13: 9780838910528)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Amer Library Assn Editions

review 1: This is a crash course in instruction for librarians who haven't taught before or who need to brush up on their instructional skills. It was a recommended title in my User Instruction course, but I'm glad I only checked it out from the library. We only read a few chapters and I skimmed the rest. It came up empty for me somehow; reading this book made me miss my teaching English days and the powerful ways I learned to become a teacher at UIC. It also increased my awareness that too many in the library field do not have any or much exposure to instructional methods and theories and practice before they hit the ground running. Anyway, I'm glad Char Booth is on my radar now.
review 2: Char Booth's "Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning" looks to be another great ... moreresource for trainer-teacher-learners well beyond its primary target audience of library staff members. The book is an engaging, concise, and welcome guide to creating engaging learning experiences for learners of all ages; includes brief surveys of key instructional design techniques and learning styles; and introduces Booth's own variation on the familiar ADDIE--Analysis, Development Design, Implementation, and Evaluation--model through her four-step USER--Understand, Structure, Engage, and Reflect--model that, through its name, continually reminds us who we are working to reach through formal and informal learning opportunities. Booth's approach never loses sight of the fact that we are well served both by having formal learning models from which we can draw and also by remembering that not every learning opportunity requires that we engage in every step of an instructional design assessment, development, delivery, and evaluation process. "More than anything, it should remind you to teach simply, reflectively, and with the learner at the center," she reminds us (p. 94). The overall message she delivers is that "reflective and design-minded teaching leads to effective, learner-centered instruction. Librarians are redefining our value in a changing information paradigm, and it is essential that we perceive the role of education in this process" (p. 151)--a goal that any teacher-trainer-learner is likely to embrace. less

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