将图书馆和图书馆员融入课堂教学的方法-英文版.doc

Approaches for integrating the library and librarians into the teaching/learning processes of the classroom Abstract The paper discusses the role of the librarian in the life of classrooms. The aim of the discussion is to present ideas that can be applied to support the integration of the librarian and library tools (which are increasingly found online) into the practical and intellectual lives of courses from the elementary school through college. Librarians can be major contributors to courses. In addition to library skills, they are often engaged in other intellectual pursuits that are supportive of courses. Even if librarians may not have specific content knowledge, their broad backgrounds in research, as well as their personal intellectual endeavors and interests, enable them to contribute. Involving librarians as partners and resources is a practice that is gaining currency. Online resources are available but may challenge teachers, and librarians can mediate and help incorporate those resources. Teacher-librarian-class partnerships also make sense in environments in which student expectations continue to rise, and accountability for learning is more exposed to scrutiny. Finally, it is suggested that the librarian’s skill combined with the ubiquity of online tools can create scalable resources that transcend geographical location. Introduction This paper discusses approaches to utilizing and integrating the significant skills and resources of librarians within classrooms. The material is intended to serve a broad range of teachers and instructors, and, depending on resources, may be applicable in elementary through college level settings. The writer’s perspective is that of the college level instructor, but the ubiquity of many of the resources discussed here makes the information applicable in courses at nearly all levels. Suggestions here can be considered to be of primary use in core courses, given their importance to any curriculum. Because of that impo