UW Libraries Teaching & Learning Portal
The UW Libraries Teaching & Learning Portal provides information to help you with your needs as an instructor including class materials, technology how-tos, statistics and assessment information, instructions for reserving a room, and readings and resources.
Class Materials
Includes materials to use in the classroom.
- Instruction Checklist
- Lesson Plans & Handouts
- Online Tutorials
- Orientations / Tours
- Undergraduate Instruction Tips and Reminders
- Walk-in Workshops / Dawg Daze / GEAR UP
- Resources for Promoting Information Literacy & Critical Thinking
Teaching with Technology
Includes tutorials and how-tos for various tools and applications for instructors.
- AV Recording Equipment & Editing Facilities
- Learning and Scholarly Technologies Workshops
- LibGuides
- Jing / Screencasting
- Creating How Do I... Tutorials: Best Practices
- How Do I... Tutorials request form
- How Do I... Tutorials to be created
- Visual Literacy / Media Resources
- Web 2.0 Tools
- Podcasting
Instruction Statistics / Assessment
- Instruction Statistics Reporting Form (Desk Tracker)
- Libraries Student Learning Goals & Outcomes PDF (approved by Libraries Council Nov. 2011)
- Everything you wanted to know about assessment (but were afraid to ask) 2012 student learning assessment workshop
- Assessment Inventory, a collection of best practices, sample survey and evaluation forms, helpful websites and blogs, tips, and articles about assessment
Reserving a Room / Forms
- Room Use Policies, Equipment & Capacities
- Odegaard Instruction Lab: See "lib-OUGL Instruction Lab" Meeting Maker Proxy
- Suzzallo Instruction Lab: See "lib-Suzzallo Instruction Lab" Meeting Maker Proxy
- Gov Pubs Lab: See "lib-Gov Pubs Instruction Lab" Meeting Maker Proxy
- Research Commons
- UW Libraries Instruction Request Form
- UW Libraries Student Consultation Request Form
Readings / Resources
- Teaching & Learning Training Week: Collaborate & Strategize with Megan Oakleaf
- Teaching & Learning Training for Graduate Students adapted by Amanda Hornby
- Teaching & Learning: Literature Review
- Peer Institutions
- Articles / Videos
- RSS / Blogs
- Professional Organizations, Journals, etc.
- Teaching Guides and Tools
- UW Bothell Teaching and Learning Resources
- Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians & Coordinators (ACRL Instruction Section)
Definitions / About
- About the Libraries Teaching and Learning Program, a website for faculty and instructors
- From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education, Barr and Tagg. 1995.
- Information literacy: "A set of abilities requiring individuals to 'recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. American Library Association. 2006.
- ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Contacts
Amanda Hornby, hornbya@u.washington.edu
Heather Gillanders, zmaya@u.washington.edu
