Library Media Specialist - Vacancy ID: 201405

• Build a collegial school learning community focused on improving learning for all students
• Catalyze integrating information and technology literacy standards into all curricular areas
• Participate in district and school information and technology teams
• Support and promote local, state, and national standards and educational goals
• Support teaching staff willing to experiment with integrating technology and instructional technology resources into classroom instruction
• Foster a spirit of critical reflection relative to teaching/learning

• Participate in district and school curriculum development to integrate information and technology literacy standards into all content areas
• Collaborate with staff to develop and implement authentic learning tasks aligned to standards
• Design performance assessments for standards-based units and lessons
• Promote and model effective use of learning resources in teaching
• Promote a lifelong love of reading and learning
• Promote an appreciation of literature and other creative expressions of information
• Support classroom reading instruction and reading for academic and personal success
• Help students become critical users of ideas and information

• Provide professional development on integrating learning tools into instruction
• Help teachers integrate the skills found in Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Information and Technology Literacy and ISTE NETS-S
• Provide training on evaluating and using information/instructional resources and learning (technology) tools
• Promote and model integrating information and technology literacy competencies into the classroom units/lessons
• Assist staff to become critical users of ideas and information
• Promote and model literacy skills instruction

• Organize information for maximum accessibility
• Provide an attractive, comfortable, technologically-rich learning environment
• Identify, select, acquire, organize, and facilitate access to information resources and learning tools that support the curriculum
• Train, schedule, supervise, and assist in evaluating Library Media Support Staff
• Provide flexible and equitable access to information resources and learning tools
• Manage the circulation/distribution of information resources and learning (technology) tools
• Provide a variety of learning environments conducive to student learning and exploration
• Promote resource sharing and participate in regional and global consortiums to expand access to instructional and other information resources for staff and students
• Provide for continuous improvement through periodic reviews of district and school information and technology systems

• Promoting the removal of all barriers to library and information services.
• Promoting the publication, development, and purchase of materials, resources, and exhibits that present positive role models from diverse populations.
• Commitment to the district’s Equity Policy beliefs and values.