“Libraries in Your Mind’s Eye”: Using Icebreakers to Build Classroom Community

Rebecca GreerLibrary Instruction

Program CoordinatorUC, Santa Barbara

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Instruction Statistics for Fall, 2018

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25,057Total Campus Enrollment

42%First Generation

6,744 New Undergrads (22,186 Total Undergrads)

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Building Classroom Community Authority figure > Coach

“Draw or describe

what comes to mind when you hear the word “Library” or “Librarian.”

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Utility of Icebreakers Including “affective” learning outcomes

Learning Theory

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Social Constructivism Lev Vygotsky

● Assimilated knowledge not isolated to the individual.

● Learning is collaborative.● Community is central to meaning-making.

Reducing Library Anxiety

Accessing prior knowledge and experiences can help establish rapport and facilitate learning transfer.

Low-stakes Formative Assessment! 14

Other Icebreaker ExamplesKWL Spin Off Theme Song for Your Life

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KWL Chart Spinoff

What do you do really well as a researcher?

What research skills do you want to improve on?

Theme Song for Your Lifeby gary colmenar @ UCSB

What would your theme song be?

What genre of music would it be in?17

How will you break the ice? Libraries in Your Mind’s Eye KWL Spin Off Theme Song for Your Life

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life

“Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.”

(Palmer, 2007)

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Thanks!Any questions?Special thanks to the following resources:

○ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival

○ Photographs by Unsplash and Pixabay

○ Image “Exam Revision #3” by User G

○ Clipart by ClipartMax

○ UCSB Library, Paseo West Entrance, CC-BY-SA 2.0

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References

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Greer, R. (2018). Flickers of critical information literacy and relational work in the one-shot instruction session, LIRT Newsletter 40(4), 17 - 20. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/rt/sites/ala.org.rt/files/content/archive/2018jun.pdf

Library Instruction Team, UCSB Library. (2018). Getting to know you: Creating community with icebreakers [Google Slides].

Palmer, P. J. (2007). The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons.

UCSB Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment. (2018). 2017-2018 campus profile. Retrieved from http://bap.ucsb.edu/institutional.research/campus.profiles/campus.profiles.2017.18.pdf

UCSB Library. (2019). [Table illustration of one-shot session for fall, 2018]. Library instruction program statistics: One-shots, fall 2016 - fall 2018.