Media Specialist

Minimum Requirements

Title: Media Specialist

Reports to: Building Principal

Location: School

Position: Certified

Contract Days: 190

Retirement: TRS

FLSA Status: Exempt

Pay Scale: Teacher

Education: Highly Qualified = M.Ed. in Instructional Technology or Library Science with coursework and proper state certification as Media Specialist

Experience: A minimum of three years successful teaching experience.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: Skills working effectively with people; effective writing and speaking skills; knowledge of curriculum; ability to employ a variety of instructional strategies that connect the curriculum to the learners; ability to handle multiple tasks.

Primary Function: The Media Specialist participates as a member of the instructional team, planning with the administrator and teachers to provide intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats, to provide instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas, to develop a media collection that supports all areas of the curriculum, and to work with other educators to design learning strategies that meet the needs of individual students.

• Plans and works collaboratively with classroom teachers to integrate literature, resources, and information literacy skills into the curriculum in accordance with state standards.
• Teaches students and teachers how to appropriately assess, evaluate and utilize information.
• Assists students and teachers in becoming effective users of resources and technology.
• Participates fully with the instructional team as a curriculum resource.
• Engages in professional development to become familiar with current educational trends and technologies.
• Promotes literature, reading and intellectual freedom through a variety of activities.
  • Schedules events and activities to promote reading.
  • Provides reader advisory services (recommendations, composing bibliographies and databases).
  • Creates displays and/or multimedia related to the media program.
  • Promotes reading across the curriculum.

• Collaborates with teachers and assists in selection, location, and integration of resources to support standards based instruction.
• Collaborates with teachers to incorporate information literacy skills into the instructional program.
• Assists with instruction and evaluation of collaboratively planned units.
• Gathers input from the school community to develop the media collection that supports the curriculum and fosters a love of reading.
• Works closely with teachers to design authentic instruction and assessment.
• Provides information about and complies with copyright laws.
• Conducts in‑service activities that provide information to teachers about educational media and technology as needed or requested.

• Acquires and evaluates information resources.
• Models correct strategies for accessing information within and beyond the media center.
• Integrates technology into the school environment.
• Teaches the value, quality, and ethical use of information sources.
• Provides orientation for new students and staff as needed.
• Promotes awareness of other resources such as public and college libraries, online services and community resources.

• Advocates the library media program.
• Interacts professionally with students, parents and colleagues.
• Demonstrates accurate and up‑to‑date knowledge of media content.
• Models correct use of language, oral and written.
• Works cooperatively with school administrators, special support personnel, colleagues and parents.
• Assumes responsibility for the media center.
  • Protects records, equipment, materials and facility.
  • Assumes responsibility for supervising students in their care.
• Complies with school, system and state regulations and board of education policies.
• Enforces regulations concerning student conduct and discipline.
  • Is punctual.
  • Attends and participates in faculty meetings and other assigned meetings and activities.
  • Complies with attendance policies.
• Directs all activities related to program.
• Participates in formation of and ensures convening of school media committee.
• Seeks involvement and input from members of media committee.
• Informs media committee of needs assessment results and progress toward goals.
• Recommends media plan, policies and procedures to media committee.
• Informs users of media policies and procedures.
• Conducts activities as specified in media plan.
• Evaluates and revises media plan as necessary.
• Instructs and supervises staff and volunteers.
• Maintains a calendar and effective scheduling system.
• Maintains accurate circulation and retrieval system.
• Promotes accessibility to media resources and facility.
• Maintains an attractive and functional facility.
• Informs users of resources, services and special events.
• Maintains media center records and accurate catalog of resources and shelf list.
• Maintains accurate catalog of patrons.
• Maintains accurate equipment inventory.
• Maintains accurate financial records…