LIS 415 - Role of the School Library Media Specialist

• Demonstrate the ability to improve student learning by providing leadership within the educational community.
• Demonstrate the ability to develop, implement, and evaluate the school library media program and manage personnel, information systems, resources, and facilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate, select, and maintain resources to provide collections that are integral to the educational goals of the school.
• Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of resources to teach students and others in the school community to develop independence in the information problem-solving process including: defining, retrieving, analyzing, interpreting, organizing, evaluating, synthesizing, and presenting information and ideas.
• Demonstrate teaching skills in literacy, collaboration, and integrating information literacy with content curriculum.
• Analyze a variety of strategies to develop life-long learners who read for a wide range of purposes.
• With information standards and school goals and objectives in mind, develop collaborative relationships within the school and community to deliver integrated instruction, reading advocacy, and information services.
• Propose strategies to provide access to and provide leadership for the management and use of information and communications technology tools.
• Evaluate methods to gather and analyze data to guide program decisions, assess student and staff knowledge and enable self-reflection in order to evaluate the library media program and its impact on teaching and learning.