Librarian-Faculty Collaboration for Literacy Courses: Promoting Better Learning for Preservice Teachers
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https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29605Keywords:
literacy teacher education, llibrary-faculty collaboration, student-centered learning, student reflectionAbstract
This narrative describes a collaboration between three university literacy faculty and a subject librarian undertaken to embed library instruction across the semester in three required courses--children’s literature, early literacy, and disciplinary literacy--in order to help undergraduate preservice teachers better understand and incorporate children’s literature and high interest literature into their teaching. Concrete, scaffolded, hands-on experiences for preservice teachers with teaching materials helped to build awareness of foundational concepts in literacy instruction. Librarian/faculty collaborations have the potential to improve literacy teacher preparation programs by providing designed opportunities for active, concrete engagement coupled with structured reflection.
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