AASL Alignments:

Standard One: Use of Information and Ideas

School library media candidates encourage reading and lifelong learning by stimulating interests and fostering competencies in the effective use of ideas and information. They apply a variety of strategies to ensure access to resources and information in a variety of formats to all members of the learning community. Candidates promote efficient and ethical information seeking behavior as part of the school library media program and its services.

Standard Three: Collaboration and Leadership

School library media candidates provide leadership and establish connections with the greater library and education community to create school library media programs that focus on students learning and achievement; encourage the personal and professional growth of teachers and other educators, and model the efficient and effective use of information and ideas.

Standard Four: Administration and Collection Development

School library media candidates administer the library media program in order to support the mission of the school, and according to the principles of best practice in library science and program administration.

Program Development and Evaluation Plan

Summary:

The Program Development and Evaluation Plan includes the creation of goals and objectives that support the mission of the school, a clear statement of the media center's philosophy and mission statement, an explanation of how budgets, committees, and personnel will be managed, and a plan for evaluating the media program. 

Evaluation:

This was another very complex, but authentic assignment.  It definitely demonstrated to me the worth in collaboration and delegation.  There were so many parts to the assignment, it would be very difficult to complete the Plan as an individual.  However, it is vitally important to create such a plan and follow it closely.  It will be an excellent tool to keep a media specialist focused on both short-term and long-term goals for the media program.  Also, the PDEP clearly demonstrates the many duties of a media specialist.  It will illustrate brilliantly the necessity of a media center and a well-trained and educated media specialist.  As far as what I would do differently next time, it might be a good idea to print and present parts of the plan to administration and department heads.  In this way, I would be gently promoting the goals and purpose of the media center as well as my own usefulness to the larger learning community.