Accompanying slides to the Rochester Regional Library Council Workshop held on December 7, 2015.

1. Aligning Library Lessons
with College Expectations
RRLC Workshop  December 7, 2015
Brandon West & Michelle Costello
SUNY Geneseo

2. Workshop Objectives
In today's session, participants will:
 examine the similarities between information literacy standards for K-12 and
higher education
 participate in a sample activities from a first-year lesson to see concept-based
instruction in action
 work collaboratively to build a lesson that is focused on information literacy
concepts

3. What do you think first-year
college students need to
know?

4. How would you go about
teaching these skills?

5. First-Year students need to be able to:
 Create and use a research question to develop a thesis
 Critically read a scholarly or research article
 Identify and search for scholarly literature; going beyond initial
results
 Evaluate scholarly literature
 Properly cite ideas that are not their own
 Paraphrase information instead of quoting sources

6. Faculty Feedback
“I suppose development of a thesis position and breaking
their argument down into parts is the most challenging
task for them. If you are going to be talking about doing
the library research to back up their arguments, then
finding and identifying scholarly sources would be the
primary challenge.”
-Anonymous SUNY Geneseo Faculty Member

7. Faculty Feedback
“Because they deal in generalities, they don’t want to follow
something they find in research into any sort of argument - they
want to use research or a published author’s comments as
“proof” or “facts” or “correct information.” They will often cite
INFORMATION from a source rather than seeing that
information as the evidence of a certain ARGUMENT, which is
what they should be engaging with since their own writing is
argument-based, not informational.”
-Anonymous SUNY Geneseo Faculty Member

8. We’re Not So Different...
ALA framework for Informational Literacy
Frame: Searching as Strategic Exploration
 Exhibit mental flexibility and
creativity
 Persist in the face of search
challenges, and know when
they have enough information
to complete the information
task
AASL Standards for the 21st-Century
Learner
1 - Dispositions in Actions
 Demonstrate creativity by using
multiple resources and formats
 Display persistence by continuing
to pursue information to gain a
broad perspective.

9. Lesson Planning Activity
Design a lesson based on information literacy concepts
Choose a skill from the AASL Standards
Reflect - How might you teach that skill?
With a partner, develop a short lesson that combines one skill and
one disposition
Record your sample lesson on your lesson plan template
Be prepared to share your great ideas!