Development in School Library Media
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Portfolio In this portfolio I provide evidence for how I am meeting the four standards for school library media specialist preparation, as delineated by the American Association of School Librarians:
Background I earned a Bachelor of Arts in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. I spent the next year teaching English as a second language in Beijing, China, then returned to Hopkins to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching. My first stint in education I taught high school English in Howard County, Maryland, then middle/high school English and history at Washington Christian Academy in Silver Spring, Maryland. Blossoming romance and wilting finances later led me to Charlotte, North Carolina, where I began a career in the finance industry. I doubled my income as a project coordinator and then a project manager at First Union Corporation. However, after two years of intense learning in technology, organization and management skills, I longed to return to the classroom to invest in students. I resumed my education career as an English teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and later returned to Howard County, Maryland, where I broadened my experience by mentoring new teachers and teaching inservice workshops for my peers. Why a Media Specialist? I love the classroom, and grieved over my decision to leave it. But after nine years of teaching English I felt that my hunger for knowledge and learning could not be satisfied by only one discipline. I also yearned for a tighter integration between teaching and the technology skills I'd been developing since my time in the corporate world. And while I enjoy working with students, teaching inservice workshops showed me that I enjoy working with teachers as well. Wherever I taught, I became friends with the media specialists. After many years I finally realized why: their role integrates most of my interests and abilities. Although it would mean obtaining a second master's degree on top of my already arduous position as English teacher and yearbook advisor, I decided to make the switch, and enrolled in McDaniel College's School Library Media program. |
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