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Foster, Elizabeth – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
As campuses become more culturally diverse, instruction librarians must work toward developing cultural competence. While the library science literature has discussed cultural competence, no scholars have directly connected it to instruction librarians' teaching. This article discusses literature, models, and best practices from related…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Library Instruction, Instructional Design, Best Practices
Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2009
This article presents K-12 motivational strategies that focus on different ideas school library media specialists can use to gain and sustain attention in the research topic. Some have come from recent submissions to the S.O.S. database of lesson plans and teaching ideas. A student-directed searching activity for college level library instruction…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Motivation Techniques, School Libraries, Media Specialists
Gardner, Roberta – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Collecting and presenting children's literature takes on new meaning when the audience is comprised of students who are affluent and represent the dominant culture. As a school librarian, the author of this article believes that children's literature provides a means by which she can introduce the diversity of society into the classroom.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Library Services, Library Instruction, Multicultural Education
Curtis, Ruth V. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1992
Presents an introduction to the ARCS Model of Motivational Design which identifies four motivational factors required for increasing the appeal of instructional presentation: gaining and sustaining attention; providing relevance; building confidence; and promoting satisfaction. Instructional strategies and ideas for applying the model to…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Library Instruction
Hawkins, Nancye, Ed. – 1987
This booklet provides a framework within which information skills may be taught. Four broad categories of information skills--identifying and locating information sources, information intake, organizing information, and communicating information--are described. The development of an information skills policy which includes a sequential list of…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Wesson, Caren L.; Keefe, Margaret – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
A direct instruction model is applied to the teaching of library skills to students with mild/moderate handicaps. The model involves determining students' skill levels, setting objectives, providing instruction, and monitoring student progress. A team approach is recommended, involving the library media specialist and the special education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Librarians, Library Instruction

Ferstl, Kenneth L. – Catholic Library World, 1987
This paper presented at the 1987 convention of the Catholic Library Association explores the role of the librarian as a teacher in school and public libraries and among clienteles ranging from school-age children to older adults. (EM)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers

Shapiro, Lillian L. – Catholic Library World, 1981
Discusses the need for library instruction, what should be taught, and how and where it should be taught. Reactions to the article from readers who received advance copies are included. (LLS)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classrooms, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education

Cushenbery, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggested activities for teaching students reference study skills include activities on locating, evaluating, classifying, and utilizing information. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Dictionaries, Elementary Secondary Education
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1999
Focuses on using effective instructional analogies, or explicit, nonliteral comparisons between two objectives, or sets of objects, that describes their structural, functional, and causal similarities. Describes the structure of analogies; common analogies to help younger learners become excited about searching for information in the library; and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Information Retrieval, Information Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
Morin, Melinda J. – 1992
The study described in this report was designed to determine the dominant approach to library skills instruction in the schools of the DeKalb County School System (Georgia), and whether any relationships existed between certain demographic variables and the approach being used. Library media specialists were asked to respond to a two-part…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education
Milam, Peggy S. – 2002
This book is a comprehensive guide to implementing the InfoQuest program in libraries, schools, and school library media centers. In the InfoQuest program, a research question is posed each week, and students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Information Literacy
Laughlin, Mildred Knight – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1988
Discussion of several of the objectives in Information Power, the new American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for library media specialists, considers such topics as access to information and the role of the media specialist. (eight references) (MES)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines

Miller, Pat; Johnson, Jeanne – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Games are one of the easiest ways to capitalize on students' learning strengths. Offers an example of how to develop games for the library. Presents ideas for teaching students the parts of a book through: cards; a board game; a dice game; a simulation game; an action game; a question-and-answer game; and a bingo game. (AEF)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Games

Page, Mary; Kesselman, Martin – Research Strategies, 1994
Describes distinctions between networked and traditional information resources, explains how these affect user education, and discusses how to transform traditional library instruction into meaningful network education. The nature of the Internet, the librarian's role, staff training, user instruction, using the network to teach, and opportunities…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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