Teach Information Literacy & Critical Thinking!

P. For Faculty/TAs (Slide Shows & More)

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Slideshow: Goals, Objectives and Expected Learning Outcomes (G's, O's and ELOs)

ASSESSMENT: Designed for librarians, but may be useful to other instructors as well.

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Document: CUTF Talk 45-minute talk on ILI to the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows-why & how to embed IL instruction in a course- to UCLA PhD candidates from many departments who were taking a course on how to develop a new undergrad course. They spent 2 Quarters drafting a syllabus for a new cutting edge undergrad course in their subject area, with a 3d Quarter spent teaching this new course to UCLA undergrads.

Message soliciting CUTF syllabus enhancement collaboration from UCLA subject specialist librarians

Sample CUTF Syllabus with suggested ILI enhancements: English 98T: New York - Literary Modernism and the 1920s

Slideshow: Embedding IL - Workshop for UCLA TAs - 2010 Teaching Information Literacy & Critical Thinking - why & how with ILI exercise examples

Slideshow: Faculty IL Workshop (Pierce College - 2016) EMBEDDING IL: Adapted and updated from General Information Literacy & Critical Thinking Workshop, designed for Pierce College (Calif.) faculty.

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Slideshow: General Information Literacy & Critical Thinking Workshop

EMBEDDING IL: Slide show for a workshop designed to help Teaching Assistants and other instructors learn how to incorporate information literacy instruction into their own curricula and assignments.

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Slideshow: New 4 U & Your Students Workshop (Pierce College - 2016)

UPDATE: How to select useful databases + introduction to databases new to the Library, designed for Pierce College (Calif.) faculty.

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Slideshow: Anthropology 8 (2011)

ONE-SHOT: Model slide show for 50-minute one-shot for a UCLA undergraduate Anthropology 8 course, used in a workshop to help Anthropology 8 Teaching Assistants learn how to do one-shot IL sessions themselves, for their own classes.

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Certificate of Completion - TA Workshop - 2009

Provided to each TA who attended a General Information Literacy & Critical Thinking Workshop (see slideshow above). UCLA Nursing Dept. TAs were required to attend this workshop and used this certificate as proof of attendance. Others may have included it in their portfolios. Feel free to adapt this certificate for your own workshops, if you would like.

Guidelines for Effective Library Assignments - 2000

Originally created by librarians participating in CCLI, South (California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction). CCLI, South later became SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians), an Interest Group of CARL (California Academic Librarians - the ACRL California Chapter).

Information Literacy Assignment Ideas - 2008

1-page description of ideas for information literacy assignments to address common problem areas faculty may encounter with their students--e.g., "If they need to examine and analyze published materials..."

NOTE: Links in this document may all be dead, But you may be able to find some of them by searching their urls in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ Feel free to adapt this document for your own use.

Information Literacy (IL) Help! - 2004

1-page pitch to UCLA faculty/TAs, briefly describing problems they may be encountering with their students' research, listing how librarians can help, and providing links to useful self-help ILI materials.

Information Literacy Teaching Modules (webpage - 2006)

UCLA faculty/TAs could choose among various instruction modules for a one-shot session for a class. Each module includes an estimate of the number of minutes needed. Modules are arranged in three categories: Locate Information Effectively, Evaluate Information Effectively & Appropriately, and Use Information Effectively & Ethically.