The school media specialist works with students and teachers in all subject areas, and therefore has to be knowledgeable on all aspects of the curriculum within the school. As I work with teachers and students in the various subject areas, I will provide differentiated instruction appropriate to the content area and achievement level of the students, while striving to provide consistency in my instructional style across the entire curriculum. To ensure this consistency, I must be ready and able to evaluate myself as an educational leader regularly. Analysis of data and formative assessments of information literacy skills will assist me in determining the effectiveness of my instructional program, empowering me to be a strong educational leader.
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As a requirement of my middle school practicum experience, I had to complete a project that was of benefit to the media center or school as a whole. The media specialist I was working with asked me to analyze data that he had collected to see if instruction and grading of note cards and pathfinders had improved during the three years he worked with a particular cohort. After meeting with a school statistician to gather some design ideas, I organized the grades in a spreadsheet and then incorporated the data into several charts in order to visualize the progress of the students over three years. The link below contains the raw data I used, an example of one of the charts I created, and a written analysis of what I discovered after completing the project. By using this information, I was able to translate for the media specialist, as well as the school, exactly how the library program was enhancing school improvement efforts by being an educational leader. |
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