How to Teach: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Practical Guides for Librarians)

Designed for any librarian who needs to teach either one person at a time or an entire class, How to Teach is a stand-alone guide to becoming proficient in teaching users how to access, evaluate, and use information. Covering both face-to-face and online teaching and learning, the book:

• gives you just enough background on learning theory, how to plan good instruction, and how to deliver it.
• helps you assess the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face and online instruction and selecting the best mode for your content.
• Illustrates instructional strategies to employ and provides model lesson plans for creating online and face-to-face instruction.
• highlights ways of using individualized instruction either by itself or as a complement to other teaching. Examples include how to create LibGuides and videos.
• features lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and hands on ways to create objectives, present activities, and evaluate instruction.