Library Media Specialist - Chestnut Grove
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Education / Teaching
Education Administration
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Manages library by performing the following duties.
Manages and promotes the program, collection center, and activities.
Secures, organizes, and ensures the school community has access to appropriate resources.
Collaborates with classroom teachers to ensure students acquire skills to access, evaluate, and communicate information, and to develop knowledge of good literature.
Confers with teachers as an instructional consultant, to seek ways to improve instruction by improving resources or applying new technologies.
Adheres to ethical and legal principles related to school library media programs, including intellectual freedom, copyright, and confidentiality of information.
Manages technology available in the media center. Assists with supervision of computer lab (Austin and Decatur High Schools only).
Uses systematic procedures for selecting, acquiring, organizing, classifying, cataloging, maintaining, and inventorying a relevant collection.
Participates as a member of the instructional team in the design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction.
Assists students and teachers in locating, retrieving, and interpreting information in various formats. Retrieves needed information from sources to meet user requests.
Trains employees engaged in cataloging, locating, filing, or copying selected material.
Attends professional meetings, writes reports, and maintains records.
- ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Master’s degree (M.A.) and current certification from the State Department of Education as a Library Media Specialist.
SKILLS:
- Ability to read and interpret documents, instructions, and operating manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of students or adults.
SKILLS:
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to solve problems and carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
Knowledge and skill in the operation of computers and computer programs.
- Alabama Class A Certificate with proper endorsements.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk, balance, crouch, squat, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach and lift with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally push, pull, carry, lift, and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus and color discrimination.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
- The level increases to very loud when supervising large group activities.
- Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. (Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.)
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