
Your Craft As a Teaching Librarian
Using Acting Skills to Create a Dynamic Presence
Association of College & Research Libraries (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 30. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-8389-3917-8 (ISBN)
Description
Library instruction is like acting: There's a live audience, in person or online; you may be doing a one-shot, limited engagement, or play to the same crowd repeatedly over the course of a term; and you usually expect reviews. Most important, instruction is like acting in that you're playing a role, and it's crucial to prepare your performance before you go on in order to shine and connect authentically with students.
Your Craft as a Teaching Librarian: Using Acting Skills to Create a Dynamic Presence -a revised and expanded edition of The Craft of Librarian Instruction-captures how acting techniques can sharpen your instructional skills and establish your teaching identity, enliven your performance, and create an invigorating learning experience for your students. It's divided into three entertaining sections:
Prepare and Rehearse: Centering yourself, physical and vocal preparation, mindfulness, and avoiding stage fright
Perform and Connect: Role playing, identity, action/reaction, and information literacy
Reflect and Sharpen: Assessment and adaptation
Chapters feature exercises to explore on your own or with a colleague, question and answer sections to help you identify potential challenges and solutions, and tips on deepening your teaching skills. A glossary of acting terms and a "learn more about it" bibliography provide additional context for the methods and techniques presented. Your Craft as a Teaching Librarian can help you personalize and characterize your teaching presence and help those with little to no teaching experience, instructors dealing with shyness or stage fright, and more experienced librarians in need of a refreshed perspective, adding an undeniable star quality to your instructional performance.
Your Craft as a Teaching Librarian: Using Acting Skills to Create a Dynamic Presence -a revised and expanded edition of The Craft of Librarian Instruction-captures how acting techniques can sharpen your instructional skills and establish your teaching identity, enliven your performance, and create an invigorating learning experience for your students. It's divided into three entertaining sections:
Prepare and Rehearse: Centering yourself, physical and vocal preparation, mindfulness, and avoiding stage fright
Perform and Connect: Role playing, identity, action/reaction, and information literacy
Reflect and Sharpen: Assessment and adaptation
Chapters feature exercises to explore on your own or with a colleague, question and answer sections to help you identify potential challenges and solutions, and tips on deepening your teaching skills. A glossary of acting terms and a "learn more about it" bibliography provide additional context for the methods and techniques presented. Your Craft as a Teaching Librarian can help you personalize and characterize your teaching presence and help those with little to no teaching experience, instructors dealing with shyness or stage fright, and more experienced librarians in need of a refreshed perspective, adding an undeniable star quality to your instructional performance.
More details
Edition
Second Edition, Revised
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
101 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8389-3917-8 (9780838939178)
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Content
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Section One: Prepare and Rehearse
Chapter One. Setting the Stage
Chapter Two. Centering Yourself
Chapter Three. Physical and Vocal Preparation
Chapter Four. Mindfulness as a Tool to Increase Your Teaching Presence
Section Two: Perform and Connect
Chapter Five. Role-Playing
Chapter Six. Flipping the Script: Information Literacy
Chapter Seven. Action (and Reaction)
Chapter Eight. Your Teaching Presence: Charisma and Chemistry
Section Three: Reflect and Sharpen
Chapter Nine. The Reviews Are In!
Epilogue
About the Authors
Glossary
Bibliography
Prologue
Section One: Prepare and Rehearse
Chapter One. Setting the Stage
Chapter Two. Centering Yourself
Chapter Three. Physical and Vocal Preparation
Chapter Four. Mindfulness as a Tool to Increase Your Teaching Presence
Section Two: Perform and Connect
Chapter Five. Role-Playing
Chapter Six. Flipping the Script: Information Literacy
Chapter Seven. Action (and Reaction)
Chapter Eight. Your Teaching Presence: Charisma and Chemistry
Section Three: Reflect and Sharpen
Chapter Nine. The Reviews Are In!
Epilogue
About the Authors
Glossary
Bibliography