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Library Media Specialist, Martin Luther King, Jr. School, Cambridge, MA

Posted April 25, 2016

Overview:
The ICTS school based team, comprised of a Library Media Specialist, Instructional Technology Specialist, Technology Support Technician and Upper School Library Technology Specialist, work as a team to provide support at the building level.
Under the supervision of the principal, and the Assistant Director of Library Media Services, the Library Media Specialist will work:

  • 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 and producers 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

Duties
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
  • 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
  • Collaborates with the Instructional Technology Specialist to deliver curriculum addressing the ICTS standards
  • Provides resources and programs that promote independent reading and writing in a variety of genres
  • Provides and plans professional development
  • 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

School Librarian:

  • Maintains an organized and welcoming facility that helps students become independent users of the library.
  • Fosters a creative, flexible environment so that the school library is an essential part of the learning community
  • Establishes procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, resource sharing of resources in all formats
  • Develops and maintains resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the instructional strategies of the school community
  • 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    
  • Coordinates and supports special events and programs such as: Massachusetts Children’s Book Awards, guest authors and illustrators, book fairs, curriculum nights, family events
  • Enhances the library’s home/school literacy role through school newsletter, online presence, special events, parent library use and/or volunteering
  • Cooperates and networks with other libraries/agencies

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
A highly qualified candidate will be state certified as a School Library Media Specialist, will have completed a teacher preparation program/educational degree, and hold a master’s degree from a master’s level program in library and information studies. At least three years of teaching experience or equivalent in the field of school library science preferred. Experience in an urban setting is highly desirable.  Strong background in children’s and young adult literature. Familiarity with
automated library system and proficient in both PC and Apple platforms. Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese preferred, but not required.

Salary: 

Cambridge Education Association Unit A Salary
Cambridge Education Association Unit A Benefits
To apply: [ http://www.cpsd.us/departments/careers ]http://www.cpsd.us/departments/careers

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