The Concept We Map: ACLR + Whole Child Strategy for Pre-Service Teacher Education Training
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Diversity and Inclusion
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Location
Session 6 Papers
Relevance
ACRL Framework is used as a tool of information literacy to generate new knowledge and bolster teacher training through the use of the concept mapping literacy strategy.
Proposal
The demands of the 21st century necessitate a new approach to education. Therefore, a whole child approach to education is strategically intended to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of today, tomorrow and beyond — college, career and citizenship. The ACRL framework is aptly suited to demonstratively help pre-service teachers seamlessly incorporate the overarching concept of inclusive excellence into lesson planning whilst using the whole child teaching strategy. As part of the collaboration, the teacher education faculty provides examples from actual concept map assessments used in an Educational Psychology course that when incorporated with the information literacy praxis demonstrates pre-service teacher content knowledge. On the basis of inclusive excellence from ideation to action, this central theme can be used to actively engage students in better understanding of a complex topic whilst addressing the comprehensive needs for long-term success of every child, regardless of ethnicity, racial identity, religious or cultural background, national origin, sex, age or creed. Intentionally big picture themes using concept maps for inclusive pedagogy can address the connective ACRL frames whilst fostering real-time collaboration, visual insight for practical application beyond the traditional classroom or zoom room.
Presentation Description
In terms of inclusive excellence, this presentation explores how the whole person approach to education: designed by Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) can creatively be matched with the ACRL Framework to engagingly generate new knowledge and bolster teacher training through a structure that involves the creation of concept maps. From an instructional standpoint a concept map is an optimal learning tool which serves as a centralized reference point for diagrammatic sense-making of complex ideas and fostering critical thinking.
Keywords
Inclusive excellence; ACRL framework; Whole child approach, Concept mapping, Information literacy, Pedagogical strategies promoting equity for all students
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
King Miller, Beverly A. and Coates, Kay, "The Concept We Map: ACLR + Whole Child Strategy for Pre-Service Teacher Education Training" (2023). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 28.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2023/2023/28
The Concept We Map: ACLR + Whole Child Strategy for Pre-Service Teacher Education Training
Session 6 Papers
The demands of the 21st century necessitate a new approach to education. Therefore, a whole child approach to education is strategically intended to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of today, tomorrow and beyond — college, career and citizenship. The ACRL framework is aptly suited to demonstratively help pre-service teachers seamlessly incorporate the overarching concept of inclusive excellence into lesson planning whilst using the whole child teaching strategy. As part of the collaboration, the teacher education faculty provides examples from actual concept map assessments used in an Educational Psychology course that when incorporated with the information literacy praxis demonstrates pre-service teacher content knowledge. On the basis of inclusive excellence from ideation to action, this central theme can be used to actively engage students in better understanding of a complex topic whilst addressing the comprehensive needs for long-term success of every child, regardless of ethnicity, racial identity, religious or cultural background, national origin, sex, age or creed. Intentionally big picture themes using concept maps for inclusive pedagogy can address the connective ACRL frames whilst fostering real-time collaboration, visual insight for practical application beyond the traditional classroom or zoom room.
