Abstract
This narrative describes a collaboration between three university literacy faculty and a subject librarian undertaken to embed library instruction across the semester in three required courses--children’s literature, early literacy, and disciplinary literacy--in order to help undergraduate preservice teachers better understand and incorporate children’s literature and high interest literature into their teaching. Concrete, scaffolded, hands-on experiences for preservice teachers with teaching materials helped to build awareness of foundational concepts in literacy instruction. Librarian/faculty collaborations have the potential to improve literacy teacher preparation programs by providing designed opportunities for active, concrete engagement coupled with structured reflection.
Description
This article is published in Language and Literacy (https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29605) under a Creative Commons Attributions License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Publisher
Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
Date of publication
Fall 2022
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4101
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Consalvo, Annamary; Doepker, Gina M.; Dubre, Vandy; and Neel, Joanna L. Dr., "Librarian-Faculty Collaboration for Literacy Courses: Promoting Better Learning for Preservice Teachers" (2022). Education Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 31.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4101