Antioch University Seattle Courses
You will take 28.5 school library courses including five Antioch and three additional online classes.
The following five Antioch library courses are offered:
EDU 602 LIBM: School Library Program Management (3 quarter credits)
This class addresses current issues in school library management; including leadership, advocacy, communication, collaboration and program evaluation. Students develop professional leadership goals and an advocacy plan for a school library program.
Instructor: Marianne Hunter, NBCT, Timberline High School Teacher-Librarian, WLMA President 2006 to 2007
EDU 604 LIBM: Technology-based Instructional Resources (3 quarter credits)
You are introduced to the technology appropriate for a school library program. You examine, evaluate and utilize a wide variety of technology-based instructional resources for use in the classroom and the school library setting. The course emphasizes the role of the librarian in connecting students and teachers to information media regardless of its format. This lab-centered course assists librarians in creating a technology-friendly media center in which technological/instructional tools are an integral part of the library program.
Instructor: Greg Whiteman, executive director of Technology, Kent School District
EDU 607 LIBM: Librarians as Curriculum and Assessment Leaders (3 quarter credits)
You will learn to develop strategies, school programs, units of instruction, and lesson plans to deepen institutional collaboration between the classroom teacher and teacher-librarian through curriculum and assessment planning and delivery. Candidates develop instructional plans around universal library curriculum content and standards as well as individual instructional needs. Course content includes the integration of information literacy skills within the curriculum of the required disciplines such as social studies and literacy. Guidelines for assessment and evaluation tools will be developed as well. The course includes strategies of leadership and advocacy to maximize the library program’s role in increasing student academic achievement. Following the completion of this course, candidates will have complete sets of lesson plans for teaching library curriculum in their respective library classrooms.
Instructor: Kelly Vancil, or Christie Kaaland, core faculty, School of Education, Antioch University Seattle
EDU 608 LIBM: Selections for Collections: Children's and Adolescent Library Materials (3 quarter credits)
You learn how to evaluate and select books, magazines and other print resources for the K-12 school library. You are introduced to a variety of children's authors and illustrators through cultural and genre studies and you develop critical standards for literature and other library materials selection by studying online and print review sources. The course emphasizes using a global, multicultural focus when examining all literature for collection consideration.
Instructor: Christie Kaaland, core faculty, School of Education, Antioch Seattle
EDU 610 LIBM: Library Research Skills: Working in Collaboration (3 quarter credits)
Here you focus on developing a research program that addresses how to understand and instruct student research skills while collaborating with teachers to improve learning. Through hands-on practice and action research, you gain an understanding of research, develop a project and collaborate with a teacher. You explore classroom-based assessments, develop lessons that support ethical use of information and apply inquiry learning.
Instructor: Sarah Applegate, North Thurston High Librarian, WLMA President 2006, National Board Certified Teacher Librarian
In addition to these five required courses, students must take a course in legal issues for the information age, as well as an information searching and retrieval course. The complete your required coursework, you take one three-credit school library elective. It is recommended that you consider your specific professional needs when choosing the elective. Please contact Christie Kaaland for information on the two required and one elective course options.
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