LEARNING TO TEACH

ACRL's Instruction Section is holding a preconference, "Learning to Teach: Workshops on Instruction," on Friday, June 27, 1997. This is a one-day preconference to the annual meeting of ALA in San Francisco. The preconference is based on the ACRL publication, Learning to Teach: Workshops on Instruction.

Often librarians learn to teach on-the-job. Learning to Teach was conceived as a collection of training modules covering instructional fundamentals to help librarians improve their teaching. Participants are encouraged to adapt the workshops and use them for training at their own institutions. Both new and experienced librarians will find the preconference useful.

The preconference workshops will be based on the original, interactive modules from Learning to Teach. Participants will be able to attend four of these six sessions:

• Contributions from the Psychology of Learning, Practical Implications for Teaching (Joan Kaplowitz, UCLA)
• Presentation Skills and Classroom Management (Claudette Hagle, University of Dallas)
• Selecting a Teaching Technique (Trudi Jacobson, SUNY Albany)
• Instruction in a Multicultural/Multiracial Environment (Karen Downing, University of Michigan, and Joseph Diaz, University of Arizona)
• The One-Shot Lecture (Esther Grassian, UCLA)
• Developing Effective Library Assignments (Christina Woo, UC Irvine).

The preconference will be held at the Berkeley Conference Center, a convenient ride via the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) from downtown San Francisco. The preconference will begin at 8:30 a.m. and wind up by 5:00 p.m., in time for participants to migrate to the Instruction Section dinner, if desired.

Registration will be limited to 140 people and includes the all-day conference, workshop support materials, and refreshments during the morning and afternoon: $85 for ACRL members; $120 for ALA members, non-ACRL members; $75 for Library School Students; and $200 for non-ALA, non-ACRL members. There will be a $35 late fee for those registering after the deadline, May 15, 1997. See the Web site for the registration form: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~mesora/ACRLIS/precon.html. Lunch can be purchased inexpensively near the preconference site.

Questions not answered via the Web site can be directed to the co-chairs of the 1997 ACRL IS Preconference Planning Committee listed below:

Margaret Phillips
Phone: 510-643-8666
Email: phillip@library.berkeley.edu

Rose Adams
Phone: 415-725-1180
Email: mesora@leland.Stanford.EDU

Submitted by Jill Holman, 1997 ACRL IS Preconference Planning Committee

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