Training Development
Charting the development of training over the years at EFL
18th December 1999
PGCE and Certificate of Extended Practice
My formal qualification in teaching were for Secondary School and then converting to Primary School. But the essentials of teaching helped in understanding the process and gave me confidence to try things out in the Library
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BEFORE EFL
Information Commons space in Earth Sciences Library - changing space to faciliate training and teaching and realign student needs eg computer software with library service
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Using powerpoint
I attended a course: Making The Most of IT to Support Learning and Teaching: A workshop July 2006 http://information-literacy.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/most-of-it-to-support-learning-and.html
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Technology for learning
INtroduced an 'Information Commons' style space at Earth Sciences Library, removing old fashioned bays of journals and desks with 12 computers with all the latest software on for students to produce their mapping projects.
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Important lessons learned about teaching English LIterature students 2008-2009
Key issues were noted with the first year's attempts of user education at EFL:
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Technology for booking 1
In 2008 amd 2009 bookings for fresher tours all took place via emailing out to Directors of Studies with options and then staff juggling phone calls and emails in return to book
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Numbers attending 2008-2009 programme
Low figures for a variety of attempts at training and user education
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Organising and planning ELG courses
ELG (Education Librarians Group) tended to focuson educational issues and I learnt a lot about libraries and education and skills training by helping them and through ELG getting acquainted with what was then UC&R members
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Turning Point clickers
I went to an Umbrella conference and was introduced to the clickers and loved them - I love interactive stuff. So I used some funds to buy a set (two others in the UNiversity also did the same). Using them was great and students liked them.
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Cambridge User Education Day
Great interest in User Education in Cambridge led us to setting up a conference. It was very well attended and from that came several key ideas. One was to try and produce a film which showed students how the library system in Cambridge worked. I chaired the group that was successful with this. I used my skills at collaboration to raise funds from the library community, and learnt about engaging other professions eg film producers. We used an ex-BBC producer who spent a lot more time than we anticipated getting to know about the libraries, and although I found the process exasperating and very difficult to manage, was pleased with the final result. Although long, it hit the mark perfectly and later led to some UX work on library space conducted by the FutureLib team here at Cambridge.
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Technology for booking 2
For the first time we offered 1 hour 'practicals alongside the induction tours and booking started getting more complicated.
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Teaching Space
Install of the IT Library Suite. This involved taking over an open plan study area, converting it to multi-purpose teaching space. Having spent time with the Information Commons in Earth Sciences, this was an extension of this but fitting in with the needs of English Literature students.
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Numbers attending 2010-2011
475 student hours of teaching/training/induction took place this year with 50 hours of training and 66 staff hours taken up
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Changes to practice from previous years
recommendations for 2009-2010 based on experiences of 2008-2009
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Application and successful achievment of FHEA
I started off applying for Associate Fellow and was then persuaded by a colleague at another institution that I should apply for the full Fellowship.I'm pleased that I did.
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Lent Term 2011 training offered
•Endnote/zotero workshop for grads. Grads currently using both of these tools attended to assist. We now have a store of information from these grads about how useful they find using the tools to pass on to grads. •Quickstart for Part 1 Dissertations – first session overbooked so we ran a second session and had a few of students requesting follow-up one-to-ones •Referencing – Libby assisted in Skills course referencing lecture with Phil Connell; we ran two referencing surgeries, one with grad assistance which was very popular. We have questions to add to the FAQ page stored on CamTools. Several one-to-one sessions took place as a result. •Focus groups on the Library website – 3 full sessions, mainly first years, to give us a good overview of what is working, what isn’t etc with a view to changing the website this summer
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Teaching space reported on
Highlighting the new IT suite and the changes in training
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Technology for booking 3
In 2011 we provided an online booking for for the first time alongside on online diary - all via google forms. Problem with this is that they didn't receive instant responses and overlaps happened and again annoyance
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Student numbers attending 2011-2012
557 student hours of teaching/training took place
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Annual Report 2011-2012
Continued improvements and tweaking of all training offered - once again the benefits of the IT training room are provided
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Technology for booking 4
We started using Formsite for bookings - this prevented them booking sessions that were already full eg http://fs25.formsite.com/LibTil/form2/index.html
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Easter 2912 - training offered
New training initiatives especially using academics to assist with training
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CHANGE Marker Training offered Michaelmas 2012
By 2012 we were starting to develop a programme that demonstrated progression for students
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Part II dissertation research
Start setting surveys 6 months afer training to establish whether library training and the library service in general was having any perceived impact on the students
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Student numbers 2012-2013
584 student hours of training/teaching/ user education took place
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Attending LILAC
I have attended L:ILAC a number of times, I have presented a poster (2006) and I have run a workshop on 'using stories for teaching'
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Lent Term training starts in earnest
New training for freshers in lent Term introduced
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Videos for teaching
Induction lectures at the beginning of the year are tricky and my lecture has for a number of years been very low-key and simply comprised of videos. We have had several made.
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Annual report 2012-2013
Continual increase in numbers of students attend courses
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Technology for booking 5
Finally we start to use LibCal
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Student numbers 2013-2014
616 student hours of teaching/training inductions etc
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Introduction of pre-arrival online information
Deputy Librarian had been writing on information literacy training and re-fashioned her diagnostic tool for information literacy into a pre-arrival test tool.
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Annual report 2013-2014
Again more tweaks here
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Using Mentimeter
I learnt about this tool at a LILAC teachmeet session - really quick and easy to use.
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Using 'stories' for teaching research
For the third year workshops we look at how to understand better the impact of using stories or case studies deliberately in our teaching. This leads to a workshop in LILAC 2015 and a chapter in edited book (Images courtesy of CHarlotte Hoare who assisted with ppt creation)
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Student numbers attending 2014-2015
815 student hours of teaching/training/inductions
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Facilitating training sessions with academcis to co-teach
Teaching Zotero with Graduate helper
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Different types of training
Crowdsourcing for an online timeline
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Annual report 2014-2015
New training for freshers gets introduced and the adoptino of the model of using academics to teach with us on our curriculum goes well
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CHANGE marker training
Significant change as we are asked by academics to run sessions for ALL Mphils - so the first intro lecture at beginning of term, and subsequent changes have been taking place since then.
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Student numbers attending 2015-2016
1011 student hours of training/teaching/induction etc 190 staff hours taken up each year on training
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Technology summary
REFLECTION ON TECHNOLOGY Simple is good. Find a clear purpose in using it. Think about what you have. If you’re going to get it use it lots to get familiar with it. Don’t wing it.
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2015-2016 stats and feedback
So once again we've increased out student hours taught and our teacher hours: Total numbers attending library-skills sessions: 1239 (context is a student population of approximately 1000). 190 staff hours taken in teaching this last year. See evaluation for our last teaching slot in May 2016
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