Connecting Librarians for K-20 Transitions

Could your library be doing more to support students’ educational transitions?  The LIRT Transitions to College Committee is pleased to announce its new web project, Connecting Librarians for K-20 Transitions.  This project is intended to help all types of librarians to start new collaborations related to preparing students for educational transitions.  These transitions include not just high school to college, but also from middle to high school, undergraduate to grad school, and from school to adult life.

The project offers case studies, talking points, and a map.  The map allows you to identify other librarians in your geographic area who are interested in collaborating on transitions projects.  Want to compare notes with a school librarian on how you teach information literacy?  Want to work with a local public library to develop digital learning objects?  Want to bring your high school students on a tour of a local university library?  These initiatives are all possible once you identify some like-minded collaborators.

We hope this project will be the start of an amazing new collaboration for you!  Please direct any questions you might have about this project to the committee members below.

Rebecca Richardson (rrichardson5@murraystate.edu)
Pamela Monroe (pamela.monroe@famu.edu)
Jennifer Hunter (jxh93@psu.edu)
Mark Robison (mark.robison@valpo.edu)

Five Things every student should learn before graduating

Read the article here

Graduate Student Professional Development: A Survey with Recommendations

Prepared for:

The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS)

in conjunction with

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Marilyn Rose, PhD  – Brock University (September 2012)

You can read the paper here:

Teaching and Learning Symposium-Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond

When: May 10, 2016
Time: 9 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms

Active learning is founded on the idea that students must actively engage with new content and skills in order to internalize and make sense of it in a meaningful and lasting way. The question with which instructors, staff and administrators in post-secondary education must grapple is how to create educational experiences that not only promote, but foster active engagement. How do we convey the importance and necessity of rejecting passive models of learning in favour of more active ones? What people, places and practices can be used to actively engage students in the education process? How do we set students up for success both in and beyond the classroom? What roles do students, staff, teachers and administrators play in student engagement?

Join Teaching and Learning Services for our annual symposium to explore the answers to these questions and to find out what the Teaching and Learning Council has been up to.

More details, including a tentative agenda, will be released shortly.

Developing Your Research Portoflio

Carleton University Library recently hosted a “Developing Your Research Portfolio” workshop for graduate students at the university. The workshop went over well and the library is looking forward to hosting it again in the future.

Check out the following resources (created by librarians at Carleton) on methods and tools for structuring a sound research portfolio:

Prezi Slideshow: A slideshow that discusses the reasoning behind developing a portfolio, the benefits of reflecting upon your work, and gives an overview of tools available for creating a simple and attractive ePortfolio.

Research Portfolio: An example of what an online research portfolio would look like. Developed using the software Wix.com.

Check the “news” section of the library website for future library workshops and events!

Best Practices for Graduate Students

Take a look at the Council of Graduate School’s resources for best practices in research and research ethics.

Writing a Research Plan

“Hiring committees desperately want to avoid making a serious mistake by investing institutional and intellectual capital in the wrong person. The aim of your research plan, then, as of the rest of your application, is to assure the hiring committee that life with you will be pain-free.” – Jim Austin

Read Writing a Research Plan in Science Careers Magazine

 

Five Principles for Research Ethics

Cover your bases with these ethical strategies from the American Psychological Association.

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