Literacy and Children's and Young Adult Literature Students
LS 5333: School Library Media Center is taught online for the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton. These graduate students are currently practicing or preservice school librarians or classroom teachers. Kent Smith elected to make a contribution to the site as his choice project.
IRLS 521: Children's and Young Adult Literature in a Multicultural Society is taught online for the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona. These graduate students are currently practicing or preservice teacher-librarians or public librarians. (Fall 2008)
LRC 585: Literature for Adolescents is taught in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Students who participate in this course are graduate students in education, library science, or English. (Spring 2006)
ECI 309: Literacy I is taught through the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Tucson campus of Northern Arizona University. Preservice teachers who participate in the course are just beginning their junior year in their teacher preparation program. (Fall 2004 and Fall 2005)
LRC 480/580: Children's Literature in the Classroom is taught in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Students who participate in this course are juniors or seniors in their teacher preparation program, or they are graduate students in education or library science. (Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, and Fall 2003)
After these college students read and responded to children's and young adult literature, they took their learning out into schools and public libraries to share books with children and young adults in classroom and library settings. In addition to reading these books, preservice teachers and librarians also elicited students' responses to the literature.
Publishing their book reviews, lesson plans, and pre-K-12th grade student work on the Web is one way for preservice teachers and library science graduate students to share pre-K-12th students' learning, as well as their own learning, with an authentic audience. Through Web publication for preK-12 students and for their classroom teacher/librarian colleagues, these future teachers and librarians have entered into the online professional community of educators.
This Web site is a celebration of the learning of preservice teachers, graduate students, their classroom teacher, teacher-librarian, or public librarian hosts, and the students with whom they shared the literature of the Southwest. The site earned the 2006 Exemplary University Department Web Site Award from the Arizona Technology in Education Alliance.
This collaborative project was developed by Judi Moreillon, Ph.D. We hope you enjoy this resource created for students, teachers, librarians, and parents in the Southwest, across the United States, and around the world. You can send your questions and/or comments to Judi Moreillon.
Link to preservice teachers and librarians contributors' page
Updated: 2 May 2010
