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Plant a Seed, Watch it Grow: using frequently requested one-
shots to create a first year curriculum
Jean Cook, Jessica Critten, and Angela Pashia
University of West Georgia
"Teach my students everything they need to
know about college research in 50 minutes"
ENGL 1101
ENGL 1102
UWG 1101 (First Year Seminar)
COMM 1110(Public Speaking)
The Kitchen Sink Method
Which Leads to this…
Grafting Information• Gandhi, S. (2004). Faculty-Librarian Collaboration
to Assess the Effectiveness of a Five-Session Library Instruction Model. Community & Junior College Libraries 12(4), 15–45
• Gilbert, J. (2009). Using Assessment Data to Investigate Library Instruction for First Year Students. Communications in Information Literacy 3(2), 181-192.
• Zoellner, K., Samson, S., & Hines, S. (2008). Continuing Assessment of Library Instruction to Undergraduates: A General Education Course Survey Research Project. College and Research Libraries 69(4), 370
How do you build on earlier sessions when students might not attend sessions in order (or at all)?
How do you satisfy teachers' individual requests with a standard curriculum?
Growing a Multi-Class Session
ENGL 1101—Fall
It didn’t work…
Plant a Seed… (Our Method)
Our Method
• Start fresh—Begin by looking at all of the first-year or introductory courses your library instruction department serves
• What do students need to know in the first year?– What is the minimum students need to
know for each class/assignment?– Where does it make the most sense to put
those concepts?
Our Method
• Outline a corresponding set of learning outcomes
• Create an Active Learning Exercise (ALE) for each learning outcome
• Limit to one or two learning outcomes per instruction session– Assign complementary, but not repetitive,
learning outcomes in each course
Our First Year Curriculum• UWG 1101 – Introduction to the library space
and collections, difference between Google and databases
• ENGL 1101 - What is a database? Types of information sources
• COMM 1110 - Background research (Presearching); Researching a topic in basic databases
• ENGL 1102 - using background to get better ideas/keywords, use limiters in a database, use subject specific databases
…And Watch it Grow (Our Results)
Photo Credits• “Seedling” by _sig_. 23 February 2011.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_sjg_/5472660657/ CC: Attribution
• “Seedlings” by chiptape. 7 May 2004. http://www.flickr.com/photos/93887247@N00/7017879837/in/photostream/ CC: Attribution
• “Seedlings” By abrooklynchic 3 April 2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/abrooklynchic/6897293226/ CC: Attribution and Share Alike
• “Dead Plant Crop” By pete_quick. 9 January 2007. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33933559@N00/351929910/ CC: Attribution and Share Alike
• “Seedings in Peet Pots” 20 September 2007 By jackalofalltrades http://www.flickr.com/photos/onegiantleap/4124211492/ CC: Attribution and Share alike
• “Plant Love” By matley0 12 December 2008. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matley0/3103059210/ CC: Attribution and Share alike
