Faculty Services
Media Specialists support and enrich your curriculum, provide successful learning opportunities for your students, and are a vital part of the activities that take place in your classroom and throughout the school. Below is a list of some of the ways in which your librarian may be of service.
Please stop by the library or email me at lotitoschuh.a@deerparkschools.org to learn more about how the library is here to support all classes.
As a Teacher and Instructional Partner
Pull books and or other library materials for use in the classroom
Search for information on a given topic
Reinforce, enrich, and collaborate on classroom lessons
Work with whole class or groups on specific topics
Teach students to select appropriate books and learn self selection techniques
Implement and design centers that compliment your curriculum
Teach students to locate and use needed resources
Teach research skills using print and non-print materials
As Information Specialist
Provide access to information technologies, both local and web based
Provide video production services
Purchase materials that enhance curriculum and support State Standards
Compile bibliographies and web site lists related to classroom curriculum
Request interlibrary loans
Provide a variety of materials to encompass the needs and interests of students, teachers, administrators and parents
Locate information for professional development courses
As Program Administrator
Find answers to policy questions regarding such topics as copyright
Supervise and support students in the media center
Train and schedule student assistants and volunteers
Run special programs and clubs, such as Library Leaders
Supporting the Curriculum: Research & Media Literacy Processes Taught
These skills can be tailored to your classroom projects and assignments so as to deepen skill processes and enrich the project's final product.
Research/Information Literacy Skills
Using NovelNY databases - Boolean search strategies, keywords, subject terms, information formats.
Using the internet to search - the right/wrong ways to use search engines, using Wikipedia effectively.
General resource lessons - navigating different formats, analyzing visual text.
Combine skills for unit-long research assignments, such as:
Notetaking skills.
Cause-and-effect.
Forming hypotheses, making claims, using evidence, and drawing conclusions.
Analyzing and drawing inferences.
Developing research questions, defining research topics, and/or creating thesis statements.
Revising research assignments/essays.
Citations.
Assist with revision of projects into a published product; digital, presentational, or physical.
Media Literacy Skills
Evaluating internet sources:
Lateral searching
Mis/dis-information (fake news and conspiracy theory platforms, and social media).
Analyzing the impact of different types of media--social, news, cultural television/film.
Teaching ethical creation; fair use, copyright, and public domain, which includes digital media remixing and creation.
Digital citizenship lessons and units on, but not limited to: cyberbullying, netiquette, internet safety, and plagiarism.