Presentation Title
New and Improved: Updating a Curriculum Collection for Pre-service Teachers
Proposal Format
20-minute Presentation
Track Choices
Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Learning
Abstract
As the nature of K-12 education has changed with the increased focus on standardized testing, university curriculum centers have had to adjust their holdings to offer more material that correlates to adopted curricula. These collections can be vital for the development of pre-service teachers, who often need access to the learning materials that they will use as teachers, but which can be difficult for them to access while still a student. This presentation explores the steps taken by Coastal Carolina University Libraries to revitalize a long-neglected curriculum collection. As part of the revitalization, we interviewed local educators and media specialists to help identify what items were needed to a offer more curriculum-based collection for pre-service teachers to use in their classwork and student teaching. This gave us a basic framework of which types of items to purchase, and with the assistance of an Horry County Higher Education Commission Grant, we were able to make significant improvements to the collection, such as purchasing additional children's literature in a number of themes, and identifying kits and manipulatives that matched with local standards. Participants will come away with a road-map for creating school-university partnerships when updating a collection of local interest.
Keywords
collection development, pre-service teachers, school-university partnerships
Speaker Bio
Kimberly Foster is the Student Success Librarian at Coastal Carolina University, and is the liaison to the Education departments and the History department. Eric Resnis is Head of Research and Scholarship at Coastal Carolina University's Kimbel Library, where he also serves as the librarian for the life and physical sciences.
New and Improved: Updating a Curriculum Collection for Pre-service Teachers
Penny Hall, 204
As the nature of K-12 education has changed with the increased focus on standardized testing, university curriculum centers have had to adjust their holdings to offer more material that correlates to adopted curricula. These collections can be vital for the development of pre-service teachers, who often need access to the learning materials that they will use as teachers, but which can be difficult for them to access while still a student. This presentation explores the steps taken by Coastal Carolina University Libraries to revitalize a long-neglected curriculum collection. As part of the revitalization, we interviewed local educators and media specialists to help identify what items were needed to a offer more curriculum-based collection for pre-service teachers to use in their classwork and student teaching. This gave us a basic framework of which types of items to purchase, and with the assistance of an Horry County Higher Education Commission Grant, we were able to make significant improvements to the collection, such as purchasing additional children's literature in a number of themes, and identifying kits and manipulatives that matched with local standards. Participants will come away with a road-map for creating school-university partnerships when updating a collection of local interest.