Integrating Information Literacy into Teacher Education: A Successful Grant Project

Abstract

Information literacy has gained importance over the last few decades, not only among librarians, but also with higher education faculty. Information literacy instruction is important for all college-level students. However, it is essential for teacher education students who must not only be information literate themselves, but also be able to teach information literacy in their K-12 classrooms. This article describes the implementation and evolution of an information literacy instruction program for teacher education students at a large public Midwestern university.

KEYWORDS:

• information literacy
• teacher education
• preservice teachers
• library instruction
• academic libraries
• collaboration