Episode 29: Balancing and Prioritizing the Instruction Load

Listen to the podcast ( mp3 , ~60 minutes) Rachel, Jason, and Anna share possible strategies instructors can take to relieve instruction-related stress, especially stress revolving around instruction load and setting priorities. The Adventures in Library Instruction trio also discuss programmatic, department-wide strategies to help keep library instructors energized. Show Notes: Jason's [with Sarah Steiner] Simmons College SLIS continuing education course, Instruction Librarian Boot Camp , coming in November; Pellergino, Catherine. " Why it matters how faculty view librarians ." Spurious Tuples (Personal Blog). August 26, 2011). What Students Don't Know - 2-year anthropological study of Illinois libraries studying students' research habits and library interactivity; Library Society of the World FriendFeed discussion about managing instruction loads; Farkas, Meredith. “ Tutorials that matter . (Technology in Practice).” American Libraries . (August 10, 2011). [re: integrating learning objects strategically in the discipline curricula] The Instruction Balance , coordinated by ACRL’s Instruction Section’s Teaching Methods Committee and Education Committee, January 22, 2006, San Antonio, TX [check out the accompanying bibliography -- a bit dated, but some good resources] Picture of Rachel's monkey costume (sans makeup):

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