School Librarian, Chelsea High School, Chelsea, MA

Posted December 16, 2014

Qualifications:

A highly qualified candidate will be state certified as a school librarian, have completed a teacher preparation program/ educational degree, and hold a master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or from a master’s level program in library and information studies.

Reports to: School library supervisor/department head [in a large building] and building principal

Supervises: Paraprofessional(s) who comprise the school library staff, and, if applicable, volunteers, student assistants

Job Goals:

• To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information
• To empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, ethical users of information
• To instill a love of learning in all students and ensure equitable access to information
• To collaborate with classroom teachers to design and implement units of instruction, assess student learning
• To align the School Library Program (SLP) with the mission, goals, and objectives of the school / school district

Terms of Employment: Teacher work year plus extended-year days

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with district policies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Teacher:

• collaborates with classroom teachers as a partner in the instructional process
• collaborates to design, teach, and assess learning experiences that incorporate inquiry learning, information literacies in their formats, critical thinking and self-assessment
• provides and plans professional development
• promotes a love of reading and lifelong learning
• promotes instructional technology to improve learning
• teaches students to build on prior knowledge to construct new knowledge

Leader:

• serves on decision making teams, school improvement and accreditation activities; presenting at meetings
• benchmarks the SLP to school, state, and national standards
• stays current in professional practices, educational research; maintains active professional memberships
• advocates for SLP through an effective public relations program
• collects and analyzes data to improve instruction; demonstrates correlations between the SLP and student achievement
• administers the SLP budget to support program goals
• participates in the recruiting, hiring, training and supervising of library staff and volunteers; evaluates support staff

School Librarian:

• fosters a creative, flexible environment so that the school library is an essential part of the learning community
• develops and maintains resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and instructional strategies of the school community
• cooperates and networks with other libraries/agencies
• establishes procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, resource sharing of resources in all formats
• evaluates, promotes and uses existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning
• promotes the ethical use of information: copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property

If interested in the position, please email resume to Principal Johari at [email protected].

Adapted from the AASL L4L Job Description. Approved by the MSLA Executive Board 4/2011