Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians

This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction.

• Describes engagement techniques that work even for shy librarians or instructors who aren't naturally comfortable with performance aspects of teaching

• Covers working with adult learners at different age groups and students with different English language abilities, from different socioeconomic backgrounds, or with various levels of technological competence, not just the "traditional" undergraduate

• Presents methods to overcome and win over those learners who initially react with "Why do I need another library lesson?"