“CAREER OPPORTUNITIES “

IN EDUCTION

WILLIAM PENN SCHOOL DISTRICT

POSITION:               Library Media Specialist

EFFECTIVE DATE:    2021/2022 School Year

REPORTS TO:           Building Principal

LOCATION:              Bell / Walnut Elementary Schools

SALARY:                  According to Negotiated Contract

POSITION SUMMARY: The Library Media Specialist is responsible for ensuring students and staff are effective and ethical users of ideas and information. ... Collaborate with teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons, units of instruction, assess student learning and instructional effectiveness

QUALIFICATIONS:  ability to read, analyze and interpret professional journals, technical procedures and government regulations; ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedures; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators, students, parents and the general public; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents; skill in oral and written communication.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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
• 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
• 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 proper

 JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Active and valid PA Certification-Library Sciences K-12
• Minimum of 3 years of school based experience
• Understanding and familiarity with computer applications
• Strong communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Must be able to obtain or currently have all background clearances (Federal, PA State, & Child Abuse).

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 lbs., such as testing material. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Subject to indoor work environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.