1. “Trial By Fire” : New Librarians as Team Teachers Angie Gerrard, University of Saskatchewan Jessica Knoch, Grant MacEwan College

2. Today’s Presentation Our Background Our Background The Instructional Program The Instructional Program Advantages of Team Teaching Advantages of Team Teaching Disadvantages of Team Teaching Disadvantages of Team Teaching New Perspectives New Perspectives

3. ‘Rookies’ in the Classroom (Or … Who we are!) Past teaching experience Past teaching experience University of Alberta Academic Library Internship Program University of Alberta Academic Library Internship Program

4. Developing & Delivering the Library Program Department of Secondary Education Department of Secondary Education Reviewing and developing curriculum Reviewing and developing curriculum Delivering the content Delivering the content

5. Advantages of Team Teaching for New Librarians

6. Comfortable Teaching & Learning Environment  Teaching together relieves tension  Less stressful teaching = more relaxed learning environment for all

7. “Demystifying the Process”  Team teaching environment allows for observation of additional models of instructional techniques  Offers new ways to approach the same material (two heads better than one)

8. Developing Non-Teaching Skills (The benefits of teaching outside the classroom) Reference desk Reference desk Collection development Collection development Team-based environment Team-based environment

9. Disadvantages to Team Teaching Incompatibility between instructors Incompatibility between instructors Time commitment Time commitment

10. Perspectives from “Not So New” Librarians: Team teaching can be beneficial to …. Team teaching can be beneficial to …. –“New” librarians to the profession –“New” librarians to an organization

11. “You’ve done this for a long time, it’s so nice to have experienced librarians guiding us, not rookies”

12. Thank-you ! Angie.Gerrard@usask.ca KnochJ@macewan.ca Read our article at: http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/ cho2734z4.htm