Librarians as Part of Your Learning and Teaching Strategy

We're having a three-day Learning and Teaching Conference here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this week.  Today, Information Services department gave some quick updates.  Here was an invitation to teaching colleagues to make the most of the skills that we Performing Arts Librarians can share with students at appropriate points in their courses.  The Biteable format is quick and snappy, and it seemed to go down quite well! 

We thought we'd share it here, in case you missed the initial showing!  (Don't panic - it takes less than two minutes to watch ...)

Librarians as a Learning and Teaching Resource

Learning and Teaching Conference - Keep the Inspiration Flowing!

Colleagues at our RCS Learning and Teaching Conference - now you're inspired and fired up to go, why not borrow some of our learning and teaching resources from the library?  Here's what comes up in our catalogue under "Teaching AND Learning" (click here).

And here are a couple of podcasts by the inspirational "Real David Cameron":- 

• The ‘Real’ David Cameron on education in Scotland and how to improve assessment through trust

• Will the real David Cameron please stand up?

   

 

Books For the Teachers

Student Teachers, Look!

Our PGCert/ Masters in Education courses are done by distance-learning.  We get e-books where possible, but sometimes they're only available as paperbacks.  If anyone's going to be in Glasgow in the near future, we've just catalogued some brand new paperbacks, (practically) hot off the press.

Did you know, the homepage of our catalogue has a link to our latest books:- click the link at the bottom of the pink square:- https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/rcs/

• Catmull, Edwin, Creativity, Inc: overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration (2014)
• Cron, Lisa, Wired for story: the writer’s guide to using brain science to hook readers from the very first sentence (2012)
• Duarte, Nancy, Resonate: present visual stories that transform audiences (2010)
• Gilbert, Elizabeth, Big magic: creative living beyond fear (2015)
• Griffith, Andy, Engaging Learners (2012)
• Griffith, Andy, Teaching Backwards (2014)

An Ogre?! What Adult Learners Say about their Music Teachers

Researcher Rachel Shirley has been looking at the significance of what adult music learners say about their learning experience.  She has uploaded a poster to her Academia.edu page with some informative detail.  You may need to sign up to Academia.edu to be able to download it, so ...

• Join Academia.edu here 
• Read Rachel's poster here!

Times Higher Education - TEACHING in Higher Education. We spotted this ...

Here's an interesting article in today’s Times Higher Education. We thought it might interest our PGCert students working towards their teaching diploma.  And indeed, any educationalists!

If you are not updating your lectures, you are letting your students down

 Stop clinging to the way you’ve always done things and work a little smarter, says Chris Moore

(Want more books about teaching?  Check out our catalogue!)

What Makes a Digitally Competent Teacher? Edutech Tells All

We came across this useful posting on the Edutech website:- 

The 7 Characteristics of a Digitally Competent Teacher

 This is likely to be of considerable interest to our B.Ed. students, and the PGCert students training for their teaching certificate in Higher Education.   Also to our Teaching Artist community.

Edutech (Cool tools for the 21st century classroom) homepage - HERE.

Telling the World about Teaching Artistry

Rising at 4 am, breakfasting at 10 - conference habits!

Teaching Artists, Teaching Librarians

Whilst Karen was at the IAML UK and Ireland* Annual Study Weekend in Cambridge last weekend, she had the dubious privilege of being the first speaker  at the academic music librarians’ seminar.  She talked about the Teaching Artist short credit-rated course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!   (Indeed, she'd worked away at her teaching plan and theoretical study during her annual leave, so she could talk about it at this seminar.)  Another librarian there made a Storify page about the session, so here we are for all the world to see!   

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

Do academic librarians need teaching skills?  How does a chartered librarian establish a place in the community of teaching artists?  Karen's PowerPoint is here.

* The International Association of Music Libraries, UK and Ireland Branch.