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Standard 1: Use of Information and Ideas |
Standard 2: Teaching and Learning |
Standard 3: Collaboration and Leadership |
Standard 4: Program Administration |
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The American
Association of School Librarians has determined that the four standards
listed above are critical in the operation of a school media center. These
standards are a guide for all media specialists to follow that will ensure
the highest quality of service for our patrons. |
The following table includes a
description of the assignments you will see on the standards pages. Each
assignment was chosen carefully with consideration given to how it fulfilled
the target requirements of each competency. The descriptions have been taken
from the professors’ class pages.
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Projects/Assignments |
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Program
Development and Evaluation Plan (PDEP) |
Description:
The PDEP is the primary avenue
through which media specialists will demonstrate their knowledge of effective
management policies, procedures, and principles. It shows their ability
to develop a plan for the library media program, a key LMS competency. |
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Selection
Policy |
Description:
School
Library Media Specialists must locate, evaluate, and acquire new materials
guided by a thoughtful Selection Policy. A Selection Policy includes
components like selection criteria, objectives, weeding policy and acceptable
use policy. |
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Instructional
Material Review (IMR) |
Description:
Media Specialists will be expected
to analyze, evaluate, and then carefully select items for their collection.
An IMR allows the media specialist to review possible materials for their
media center or national journals. |
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Internship
Log |
Description:
As a media intern there are many
experiences to record and learn from. This log contains the day-to-day
activities I performed as a media intern at |
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Final
Order |
Description:
Compile a list of resources for
purchase that will support a planning objective from your PDEP or Selection
Policy. |
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Evaluating
Websites Lesson |
Description:
This lesson was designed after
completing a series of steps including evaluating the learners and the
learning environment. It is important for students to be able to evaluate
on-line information for accuracy and content. |
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Media
Center Website |
Description:
Media Specialists need to provide information to their learning
community that describes their services, policies, current events, and many
other items. This is easily done in the form of a website. |
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Technology
Assessments and Curriculum Map |
Description: The purpose of these
assessment instruments is to identify your staff and student technology skill
levels and their perceived needs. These instruments will also tell you how
technologically literate both groups are. Description:
Curriculum
maps, when well-done, tell the story of how the curriculum is actually being
taught, not how it should be taught. Each teacher contributes his/her
substantial and/or thematic units to the map. From this information, the two
media specialists make an appointment with the teacher to plan together to
further develop the unit to include the kinds of resources and technology they want, and the technology
and literacy skills the media specialist needs to teach the students in order
for the students to be successful learners. |
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Community
Profile |
Description: A community profile contains description of community population ethnicities, school populations and performance, teacher experience and degrees, general businesses and industries description, cultural advantages that schools can use (libraries, museums, etc.), economic strata, GA. Dept of Education data on the school. Written in a professional manner for an audience of educators and parents. |
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Last updated 3/22/2005