Instruction & Outreach
My current and previous positions have provided me with invaluable opportunities to learn and grow as a teacher. Teaching has become one of the areas of librarianship that I feel most passionate about and I continually experiment and pursue professional development opportunities that will help me become a skilled instructor, both in-person and online.
Examples include:
At Fresno State, I have served for several years as a proactive and engaged liaison to several departments in the College of Arts and Humanities and have worked with instructors to integrate information literacy into their curriculum via online tutorials and in-person workshops and appointments.
In addition, as our former Research Services Coordinator, I coordinated our instruction assessment efforts and was involved in several projects to assess students' information literacy skills.
Examples include:
- In 2021, I earned the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Credential in Effective College Instruction. Completed during the COVID-19 pandemic, this course allowed me to reconsider my approach to online teaching and learning and learn more about designing an effective learning environment, using active learning techniques, promoting higher order thinking, and incorporating assessment strategies to inform my approach to instruction.
- In 2017, I earned a Master of Science in Instructional Science & Technology from CSU Monterey Bay and, prior to that, completed a graduate certificate in Online Teaching and Learning from CSU East Bay in 2013. Both of these programs taught me a great deal about the pedagogy of online teaching, the instructional design process, assessment and research methods, and technology tools that can be used to facilitate learning.
- In 2013, I participated in the ACRL Immersion program's first Teaching with Technology Track. This was an amazing opportunity to learn from two experts in the field of library instruction, Tiffini Travis and Char Booth, and to work with other librarians to critically approach instructional technology and integrate instructional design principles into the development of a final project.
At Fresno State, I have served for several years as a proactive and engaged liaison to several departments in the College of Arts and Humanities and have worked with instructors to integrate information literacy into their curriculum via online tutorials and in-person workshops and appointments.
In addition, as our former Research Services Coordinator, I coordinated our instruction assessment efforts and was involved in several projects to assess students' information literacy skills.