#developing and implementing the new acrl framework

a Workshop
Led by Sara Quimby and Lisa czirr

Objectives

• Participants will be able to apply framework to their own institutional practice and curriculum.
• Participants will be able to apply framework to their own pedagogial practice.

Agenda

• Framework, activity
• applying framework at program level, activity
• applying framework at class level, activity

ACRL Framework

THreshold Concepts

THreshold Concepts

• Transformative
• Irreversible
• integrative
• Troublesome

The Frames

• Scholarship as Conversation
• Research as Inquiry
• Information Creation as Process
• Information has Value
• Searching as Strategic Exploration
• Authority is Constructed and Contextual

activity

Authority is constructed and contextual

Scholarship as Conversation

Searching as strategic exploration

Information has value

Research as inquiry

Information Creation as process

Break!!!!!

Hmmmmm....

• "filed" then "adopted"
• Old Standards Rescinded
• Sandbox, Task Forces
• ACRLFRAme Listserv, ACRL ILI
• Twitter

The Situation

The switch

• positivist to social constructivist
• generic skills to descriptive concepts
• easily to not-so easily assessed

SUNY Cortland

Grassroots style!
1) shared il outcomes
2) curriculum mapping/practice-beta
3) assessment database

anatomy of an outcome

Before: Determine an appropriate scope of investigation


After: SWBAT identify the parameters of an inquiry and parameters of other possible (but out of scope) inquiries In order to construct a research plan of appropriate scale

activity

Curriculum Mapping

Benefits

• - Strategize teaching
• - understand discipline curriculum
• - reflective practice
• - positive planning

Challenges

• - managing expectations
• - Professional Development
• - Faculty Hurdles

Untitled Slide

Break!!!!!

Backward design

Backward Design process

• 1) Desired results
• 2) Assessment evidence
• 3) Learning plan

Untitled Slide

activity

Essential Questions ideas

• - What characteristics of........?
• - Why does it matter?
• - how could you use.........to overcome...........?
• - What are the strengths/weakness of.....?
• - how might it feel to be in the shoes of...............?
• - what are the limits of my knowledge of........?

comment on:

• what is one thing you really like
• what is one thing they could improve

Citation

• - (slide 6) Meyer and land, 2006, editor's preface xv

The end...?