School Library Media Specialist, Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Providence, RI

• Creating an environment that is conducive to active and participatory learning, resource-based instructional practices, and collaboration with teaching staff
• Encouraging the use of instructional technology to engage students and to improve learning, providing 24/7 access to digital information resources for the entire learning community.
• Collecting and analyzing data to improve instruction and to demonstrate correlations between the School Library Program and student achievement
• Maintaining active memberships in professional associations
• As an instructional partner the school librarian works with teachers and other educators to build and strengthen connections between student information and research needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and information resources. The school librarian demonstrates his or her role as an essential and equal partner in the instructional process by:
  • Collaborating with teachers and students to design and teach engaging inquiry and learning experiences and assessments that incorporate multiple literacies and foster critical thinking
  • Participating in the implementation of collaboratively planned learning experiences by providing group and individual instruction, assessing student progress, and evaluating activities
  • Joining with teachers and others to plan and implement meaningful experiences that will promote a love of reading and lifelong learning
  • Providing and planning professional development opportunities within the school and district for and with all staff, including other school librarians
• As information specialist, the school librarian provides leadership and expertise in the selection, acquisition, evaluation, and organization of information resources and technologies in all formats, as well as expertise in the ethical use of information. The school librarian ensures equitable access and responsible use of information by:
  • In accordance with district policy, developing and maintaining a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the teaching styles and instructional strategies used within the school community
  • Modeling effective strategies for developing multiple literacies
  • Organizing the collection for maximum and effective use.
• As a teacher, the school librarian empowers students to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information. The school librarian supports students’ success by guiding them in:
  • Reading for understanding, for exposure to diversity of viewpoints and genres, and for pleasure
  • Using information for defined and self-defined purposes
  • Building on prior knowledge and constructing new knowledge
  • Embracing the world of information and all its formats
• As program administrator, the school librarian works collaboratively with members of the learning community to define the policies of the school library program, and to guide and direct all activities related to it. The school librarian maximizes the efficiency and effectiveness of the school library program by:
  • Using strategic planning for the continuous improvement of the program
  • Ensuring that school library program goals and objectives are aligned with school and district long-range strategic plans
  • Using effective management principles, including the supervision of personnel, resources, and facilities, in developing and implementing program goals and objectives
  • Preparing, justifying, and administering the school library program budget to support specific program goals
  • Establishing processes and procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, resource sharing, etc. that assure appropriate resources are available when needed
  • Creating and maintaining in the school library a teaching and learning environment that is inviting, safe, flexible, and conducive to student learning
  • Ensuring equitable physical access to school library facilities by providing barrier-free, universally designed environments

Advanced degree in Library Sciences supported by coursework in special education, education of the deaf and hard of hearing or any combination of Education and experience that is substantially equivalent to meet the need of the school population.

Certification: Rhode Island Department of Education Certification: Library/ Media
Experience:

• Documented experience in a public school setting serving a diverse student population
• Master degree preferred
• Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required
• BCI Required
• At least 4 years of relevant experience preferred
• Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required

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