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Basic Skills and Libraries: It’s “Mint” to Be!

This presentation outlines Renton Technical College’s innovative approach to supporting ESL and Basic Studies students through partnerships with the library and active implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Highlights include an overview of reading apprenticeship strategies, ESL orientation workshops, and the role of library resources in bolstering academic success. The initiative promotes inclusivity and aims to empower students by enhancing reading comprehension skills, making library services accessible, and fostering a supportive community.

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Basic Skills and Libraries: It’s “Mint” to Be!

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  1. Basic Skills and Libraries:It’s “Mint” to Be! http://www.quia.com/pages/dcrumb/eslandlibraries Presented by RTC’s Debbie Crumb Revised 08/12/09 Peninsula College LibraryAugust 13, 2009

  2. What I’ll Cover • Overview of RTC • RTC’s UDL initiative • Reading Apprenticeship and RATs • Basic Studies and Library Partnership • ESL orientation and workshop excerpts • Fabulous, fabulous prizes!

  3. Renton Technical College (RTC)

  4. RTC in 2007-08 • 15,229 students (head count) • 3,826 state-supported FTEs • 10,870 students in training programs • 4,164 (26.5%) enrolled in ESL/Basic Studies

  5. RTC in 2007-08 • 50.8% are persons of color or interracial (Latino 19.5%; Asian/Pacific Islander 17.3%; African American 12.3%; Native American 1.5%, White 49.2%) • Immigrant, Refugee, & Temp. Legal Resident: 2,235 (17.8%) • 471 students moved from ESL into career programs

  6. I-Best Classes at RTC • Allied Health • Central Service Technician • Certified Nursing Assistant • Licensed Practical Nurse • Pharmacy Technician • Phlebotomy • Surgery Technician • Early Childhood Careers • Accounting

  7. Universal Design for Learning Guidelines http://www.cast.org/publications/UDLguidelines/UDL_Guidelines_v1.0-Organizer.pdf

  8. RTC’s UDL Initiative • 2002-09 funded by Dept. of Education • Faculty trained to better understand: • Learning disabilities, • Brain-based learning, • Universal Design for Learning, • Assistive technology and learning strategies • Multi-modal technologies for classrooms.

  9. More Info re:RTC’s UDL Initiative • RTC’s UDL website http://www.rtc.edu/AboutUs/DSDPGrant/ • RTC Application of UDL with resources: http://webs.rtc.edu/ii/dsdp.html

  10. Reading Apprenticeship (RA) • WestEd’s research-based framework for improving reading comprehension in content areas • Routines can be used with ALL students including ABE, GED and ESL • It’s all about the metacognitive conversation & making invisible, visible

  11. RA http://www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/sli/ra_framework.htm

  12. RA and RATs at RTC • Formed RATs support group • Created RATs website and blog • http://rtc-rats.org • Publish monthly RAT Review newsletter • Conduct monthly workshops • Faculty In-Service trainings

  13. RA Makes a Difference!Data from 2 ABE Classes (* Defined as having a 3 – 5 point gain across the quarter.)

  14. Library & Basic Studies Partnership • Collection development • Instructors encouraged to make purchase suggestions for collection • Basic Studies materials on “reserve” • Library liaison to Basic Studies • Orientations and workshops

  15. Collection Developmentand Circulation Stats Currently there are 1,942 items in the 400’s section. About 25% of the total circulation is from the 400’s.

  16. Books

  17. Media Materials

  18. ep Problem: Missing Dept. Materials

  19. Solution: Library Reserve

  20. Library Liaison • Attends Basic Studies Department meetings and potlucks • On Basic Studies email list • Informs Basic Studies staff about library materials and websites • Facilitates problem-solving • Teaches most of the workshops.

  21. Library Orientation & Workshops • Library orientation and tour • Library Terminology Games • Practicing Library Situations • Using an English Language Dictionary • Library Online Catalog • Online Encyclopedias • Using Google • Online Job Searching

  22. Library Presentation Statistics • In FY2007-2008, the RTC Library gave 268 presentations (120 orientations and 148 workshops) to 4,632 attendees • 40-50% were given to ESL classes • All ESL students attend library orientation • Over 80% of the ESL teachers schedule additional library workshops for classes

  23. Strategies List for Teaching Library Sessions to ESL Students

  24. What to Say, How to Say It • Enumerate when possible • Keep it simple • Speak clearly, slowly and pause often • Be specific and explicit • Choose words carefully-no slang/idioms • Say it another way • Give oral, visual, physical clues • Relax and maintain sense of humor Mitchell, Elisabeth. Check It Out Handbook: A Guide for Library Staff. Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Community House Training Project, 1998, pp. 2-3.

  25. RTC Library Orientation for ESL

  26. Short Stretch Break & Prizes! Everyone stand up and stretch a bit while we conduct drawings for some fabulous, fabulous prizes.

  27. Library Workshop Excerpts • Library Terminology Games • Practicing Library Situations • Using the Library Online Catalog • Using an English Language Dictionary

  28. For More Info Crumb, Debbie and Eric Palo. “It’s Showtime! Engaging Students in Library Instruction.” pages 30 – 39. Cook, Douglas, and Ryan Sittler. Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: 17 Innovative Strategies to Improve Student Learning. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008.

  29. More Resources • National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/ • Literacy NOW http://literacynow.info/ • ESL Annotated Bibliography • Making it Real: Teaching Pre-literate Adult Refugee Students. • Check It Out Handbook: A Guide for Library Staff ($10) & Check It Out Visuals: A Package of Graphics for Libraries ($35).

  30. Picture Dictionaries • Milet Picture Dictionaires & Milet Vilingual Visual Dictionaries: http://www.milet.com/ • Oxford Picture Dictionaries: http://www.oup.com/us/

  31. More Collection Development Resources • National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/ • California Language Laboratories http://www.esltapes.com/ • World Language http://www.worldlanguage.com/ • Pimsleur http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/learn-english.asp • Pro Lingua Associates http://www.prolinguaassociates.com/

  32. Other Stuff • Study Guides and Strategies http://www.studygs.net • Using English.com http://www.usingenglish.com/ • BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ • Palo, Eric. “ESL Students and Technology in the College Library,” in Our New Public, A Changing Clientele: Bewildering Issues or New Challenges for Managing Libraries.  Libraries Unlimited, 2007, pp. 114-120.

  33. Toys & Stuff • Trainers Warehouse http://www.trainerswarehouse.com/ • Trainers' Market http://www.trainersmarket.com/ • Discount School Supply http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/ • SmileMakers http://smilemakers.com

  34. Questions?

  35. Workshop Evaluation • Please complete the workshop evaluation form. Thanks!

  36. More Fabulous, Fabulous Prizes

  37. Thanks for inviting me!

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