Bookending STEM Lessons

Abstract

Picture books and elementary education bookend one another. Getting those books as an instructional tool into the hands of teacher candidates (TCs) and their elementary student-teaching classrooms is the focus of our five-year collaboration. Scripps-Hoekstra and Hamilton (2016) reviewed 30 years of literature on collaboration between education faculty and librarians and identified three roles: librarian-as-reference, librarian-as-consultant, and librarian-as-instructor. As an undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) elementary education teacher educator (TE) and librarian liaison (LL) to education, we collaborate across all three, working together to empower our TC’s confidence in teaching STEM with beautiful picture-perfect books.

Keywords::

• Reading strategies
• co-teaching
• picture books
• librarians

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Sumreen Asim

Sumreen Asim ([email protected]) is an associate professor of science and technology education, and

Melanie Hughes

Melanie Hughes is a librarian and library liaison to the school of education, both at the Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana.