The Craft of Librarian Instruction: Using Acting Techniques to Create Your Teaching Presence—print/e-book Bundle

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Item Number
8700-8213
Published
2016
Publisher
ACRL
Pages
112
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Print/eBook Bundle

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  • Description
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  • About the authors

Library instruction is like a theatre performance. You play a role as the instruction librarian. There is a live audience. You may receive reviews or evaluations. Or maybe the teaching experience feels more like an audition—a bit unnerving! In The Craft of Librarian Instruction: Using Acting Techniques to Create Your Teaching Presence, join Julie Artman, Jeff Sundquist, and Douglas R. Dechow for a fun and creative approach to library instruction as they demonstrate how acting techniques can hone your presentation skills, your teaching style, and your performance to create an invigorating (and stress-free) learning experience for your students.

Using acting methods and techniques, you’ll learn how to:

  • Rehearse and prepare for your instruction session by centering yourself through visualization, memorization, and improvisation;
  • Connect with your students through personalization and role-playing, and by exploring your teacher identity; and
  • Sharpen your unique teaching presence through reflection and intentional instruction.

Vocal and physical preparation and instructional scenarios will reveal potential challenges and pose solutions, and provide tips for deepening your teaching skills. Intended for newly hired instruction librarians, librarians with little or no teaching experience, those dealing with shyness or ‘stage fright,’ as well as more experienced librarians in need of a refreshed perspective, The Craft of Librarian Instruction: Using Acting Techniques to Create Your Teaching Presence will add an undeniable star quality to your instructional performance!

Acknowledgments   
Prologue   

Section I: Prepare and Rehearse

Chapter One: Setting the Stage
Chapter Two: Centering Yourself
Chapter Three: Physical and Vocal Preparation

Section II: Perform and Connect

Chapter Four: Role-Playing   
Chapter Five: Action (and Reaction)   
Chapter Six: Your Teaching Presence: Charisma and Chemistry   

Section III: Reflect and Sharpen

Chapter Seven: The Reviews Are In!   

Epilogue   
About the Authors   
Glossary   
Bibliography   

Julie Artman

Julie Artman, MFA, MLIS, has worked as a theatre director, producer, acting coach, and actor in New York City, Los Angeles, and regionally. Julie is a librarian at Chapman University and teaches mindfulness. Julie is certified by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and certified as a mindfulness facilitator by UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Jeff Sundquist

Jeff Sundquist is the Dean of the Library, Learning Resources, and Online Education at Monterey Peninsula College. He has an MA and MLIS from UCLA and has been performing in the interconnecting spaces of the theater and libraries for an indeterminable amount of time. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark, where he worked as librarian for theater, dance, and sports at Statsbiblioteket.

Douglas R. Dechow

Douglas R. Dechow is the Digital Humanities and Science librarian at Chapman University. Doug is co-editor of Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson and co-author of Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand. For more, visit his website.