College Strategies

This week I sat in on a College Strategies class taught by one of the Reference Librarians. I had been asked the previous week if I wanted to teach the class. I said that I would think about it. I was scared out of my mind! I have never taught a live class, other than Sunday school and somehow I don't think that college kids and 4th graders are the same. I just could not get up the nerve to do it. I would like to teach a College Strategies class in the future, but I would like to be more prepared for it.
When I sat in on the class, the one I could have been teaching, I noticed that it was very hard for the instructor to get the class motivated. By no means was it the instructor's fault whatsoever. She was trying her hardest to get them to do something, speak, anything. It was quite a big classroom too. They were not the liveliest bunch. The whole time it was like pulling teeth. She said that the teacher had warned her that they were a hard sell. She was right. I wonder how the class was after that one. Right after the first class, another group came in. I wonder if they were any better. There definitely did not seem to be as many people in that class.
It just amazes me how little the students know about the library, of course they are College Freshman so I guess it makes sense. Hopefully they know a little more about the library than they did before. Also, the librarian stressed that the library was here for them and for them to come ask questions if they needed help. I think that is probably the most important thing they could have walked away with.
At the end of the class, one of the instructors got up and said, " Okay, you can Facebook now." 'Wow!', I thought, David Silver's words really were true. He said that a lot of the kids just know Facebook.