Mapping IL skills to the departmental curriculum I freely admit this is strongly based off of a session at LOEX 2019, if any of you went to that Naomi Schemm Business Ref & Instr Librarian

Problems: Some departments use IL instruction heavily; others not at all IL instruction depends on existing relationships with profs Sometimes in required courses, others not Instruction for online classes is not parallel to in-person instruction As a semi-new business librarian, this was the situation I found myself in, in the last year or two. I had a sense that these were a few problems with my instruction Do any of these sound familiar?? 

(Attempting a) solution: IL skills mapped to specific, required classes in a major’s course pathway Not dependent on individual profs’ requests Stronger case to require parallel instruction for online students This is still an ongoing process and I have yet to make the case for this to all of my departmental faculty, and the chair. But at least the teachers of those required classes (next slide) are on board with it. So, how did I do it? Next slide…

How? My process: Look at the “course progression” sheet from advising office to see what the ideal course pathway would look like Mark where you currently have instruction (for me, that was two 1st year classes, MKT research and MKT capstone). Good news here was that I already did have a relationship with these professors/classes (but not for the online sections) If you don’t currently have instructional relationships, mark where would be a logical place for it Transfer that to the Excel spreadsheet. Plus, list any other places where you currently do regular instruction (for me, that was LOTS of electives) I’m comparing, on the left, to specific IL skills in Framework-oriented groupings Look at your lesson plans for the classes you’ve done, and mark the what you currently do for instruction. I / R / M. Really helpful for me at first, to see where the gaps are. Or what you’re covering many times over. Or what you’re only covering in electives, not required classes. Use this information to approach professors or department chairs. I freely admit I’m starting with the easy department (Marketing) this summer! And OESH. Both of which already have some tradition of instruction with me.

Thanks! SchemmN@uww.edu 262-472-5519 Files: http://bit.ly/2Iu7B7t You’re welcome to contact me to talk more about the process Or steal my files from here – the list of the IL skills mapped to the Framework