School Media Certification:

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School Media Certification How do I get
it and What do I do with it?
Dr. Kaye Bray Assistant Professor (former
SL) School of Library Information Studies Texas
Woman's University
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How do I get it?

• Texas Administrative Code
• Title 19 Education
• Part 7 State Board for Educator Certification
• Chapter 239 Student Services Certificates
• Subchapter B School Librarian Certificate
• http//info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtacext.Vi
  ewTAC?tac_view5ti19pt7ch239schBrlY

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Requirements

• Successfully complete a school librarian
  preparation program
• Successfully complete the assessments
  required (TExES)
• Hold a master's degree from an accredited
  institution of higher education
• Have two school years of classroom teaching
  experience from a public or accredited private
  school

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Admission to school librarian preparation program
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• Hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited
  institution of higher learning
• Meet the requirements for admission to an
  educator preparation program
• For example TWU - SLIS

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Assessment
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• Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES)
• http//www.texes.nesinc.com/
• Next date offered in 2005 Dec.10th

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Masters degree
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• Degree must be from an accredited institution of
  higher education
• Academic program the degree is from is not
  specified

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Teaching Experience
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• Must have two years of classroom teaching
  experience
• This experience can be from a public or
  accredited private school

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Certificate Options

• Coursework for the certificate can be completed
  as part of the Masters of Library Science (MLS)
• For students already holding a masters degree,
  coursework can be completed by taking classes
  required by the preparation program. (TWU
  requires 24 hours)

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Other paths to certification

• 1. Emergency Certification State Requirements
• Teaching certificate
• 2 years teaching experience
• 6 hours of applicable coursework
• Complete coursework within 3 years
• State mandated of hours to be completed each
  year (6 minimum)

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• 2. Probationary Certification Requirements
• TWUs Requirements
• Admitted to SLIS
• Have degree plan on file or be currently admitted
  to 5813 Information Professions
• Two years classroom (public or private
  accredited) teaching experience
• Renewed on a yearly basis complete coursework
  within 3 years
• Requirements set by individual university program
• Up to university to determine if progress is
  adequate for annual renewal

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What do I do with it?

• Standards for the school librarian
• Standard I. Learner-Centered Teaching and
  Learning Goal To promote the integration of
  curriculum, resources, and teaching strategies to
  ensure the success of all students as the
  effective creators and users of ideas and
  information, enabling them to become lifelong
  learners.

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• Standard II. Learner-Centered Program Leadership
  and Management Goal To demonstrate effective
  school library program leadership and management
  throughout the school, the district, and in
  local, state, national activities and
  associations.
• Standard III. Learner-Centered Technology and
  Information Access Goal To promote the success
  of all students and staff by facilitating the
  access, use, and integration of technology,
  telecommunications, and information systems to
  enrich the curriculum and enhance learning.

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• Standard IV. Learner-Centered Library
  Environment Goal To provide design guidelines
  for facilities to allow for manipulation,
  production, and communication of information by
  all members of the learning community.
• Standard V. Learner-Centered Connections to the
  Community Goal To provide information equity by
  working for universal literacy defending
  intellectual freedom preserving and making
  accessible the human record ensuring access to
  print and electronic resources connecting school
  faculty, staff, and students to community
  resources and services as needed and by
  connecting community members to school resources
  and services as appropriate.

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• Standard VI. Learner-Centered Information Science
  and Librarianship Goal To promote the success
  of all students and staff by providing
  information equity working for universal
  literacy defending intellectual freedom
  preserving and making accessible the heritage of
  all cultures and ensuring that equal access to
  resources in all formats is available for
  everyone.
• Student achievement is the objective of school
  library programs. Look at the Web site to better
  understand the standards required of school
  librarians http//www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/schoolli
  bs/

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Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)

• According to the document, "2005 School
  Library Programs Standards and Guidelines for
  Texas," as adopted by the Texas State Library
  Archives Commission, there is a connection
  between school library programs, the Texas
  Assessment of Knowledge Skills (TAKS) and the
  Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
• Search the TEKS by chapter and grade level
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/Chapters

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Texas library connection to TAKS and TEKS

• Librarian's role expanded to include
• library books
• reference resources
• access to databases
• Internet connectivity for computers
• multimedia
• information in all formats, electronic as well as
  print.
• To see examples of how the library program
  supports the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
  (TEKS) foundation curriculum (English, social
  studies, etc.) as well as supporting the
  acquisition of Literacy and Technology
  Applications TEKS proficiencies, go to
  http//www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/libraries/

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School libraries are an integral part of our
educational system!

• I believe that the motion picture is destined
  to revolutionize our educational system and that
  in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
  entirely, the use of textbooks.
• Thomas A. Edison, 1922

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Tools

• Educational system is not just an information
  delivery system.
• Edison thought movies would replace books and
  teachers.
• Later it was thought
• that television would
• replace books and
• teachers.
• Its been said that the Internet would make
  libraries obsolete.

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Today

• Our educational system must help students learn
  to cope with technology and science changes, with
  emphasis on
• Understanding, higher-order cognition, and
  problem solving
• Helping students learn to learn lifelong learner

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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for
Technology Application

• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter126/in
  dex.html
• By using technology as a tool students will
  select the technology appropriate for the task
• So, by integrating technology in the library, we
  are also teaching technology.

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The Student Will

• Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of
  hardware components, software programs, and their
  connections.
• Use data input skills appropriate to the task.
• Comply with the laws and examine the issues
  regarding the use of technology in society.
• Use a variety of strategies to acquire
  information from electronic resources, with
  appropriate supervision.

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• Acquire electronic information in a variety of
  formats, with appropriate supervision.
• Evaluate the acquired electronic information.
• Use appropriate computer-based productivity tools
  to create and modify solutions to problems.
• Use research skills and electronic communication,
  with appropriate supervision, to create new
  knowledge.

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• Use technology applications to facilitate
  evaluation of work, both process and product.
• Format digital information for appropriate and
  effective communication.
• Deliver the product electronically in a variety
  of media, with appropriate supervision.
• Use technology applications to facilitate
  evaluation of communication, both process and
  product.

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Ways to get involved

• Web site evaluation
• Search engine evaluation
• Library web page
• Social software such as Weblogs, Wikis
• WebQuests (include library resources and web
  links that are appropriate for students to
  research and ideas for further research,
  revolving around a point of interest to students)
  Template http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuestTempla
  te/webquesttemp.htm
• Collaborative online projects

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Collaborative Online Projects

• e-PALS Projects
• http//www.epals.com/projects
• Visit this site for projects designed to help
  teachers meet
• curriculum needs in innovative ways.
• Collaborative Projects
• http//k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/collabprojs
  .html
• Try this site to join collaborative projects with
  your class.
• 3. Ongoing Telecollaborations
• http//telecollaborate.net/education/edfind.html
• This site has links to sites with multiple
  projects.

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Social software (for group interaction)

• Mail list (listserv, group)
• Blog (weblog or web-based publication) Ex.
  Library Media News http//lm.lisnews.comCreate
  your own Library-blogs.net http//library-blogs.
  net
• News source Ex. American Library Association
  http//www.ala.org
• Wiki (weblog anyone can edit)Ex.Wikipedia
  http//www.wikipedia.org/
• Aggregator (collects and reads RSS/XML tracks
  updates)
• RSS/XML (file formats used by weblogs)

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Library/School Use - ideas from presentation by
Walter Betts, DISD

• Weblogs
• Use Current Professional Information, Best
  Practices, Book Technology Reviews,
  Publicity/Outreach, Advocacy, Simplicity/Ease of
  Use
• Wikis
• Pros (scope size, currency, multilingual,
  multicultural, cost is free, inaccurate
  information does not remain long those who take
  ownership of certain topics are passionate and
  vigilant)
• Cons (anyone can edit an article, consensus over
  credentials lack accountability authority,
  lack of consistency, sense of anarchy and chaos
  a wild west mentality, those who take
  ownership of certain topics are passionate)

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What is the world coming to Changes

• Only one space between sentences (after ending
  punctuation).
• Inserting two spaces at the end of a sentence is
  a throwback to the old typewriter days, when
  typefaces were monospace and two spaces helped
  signal the end of a sentence. Today we typically
  use proportional fonts, so two spaces after
  periods can create distracting rivers of white
  space.

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15th Edition Chicago Manual of Style

• Section 2.12 "A single character space, not two
  spaces, should be left after periods at the ends
  of sentences (both in manuscript and in final,
  published form) and after
  colons."

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The end

• An important role of the school librarian is to
  encourage students to be life-long learners and
  readers.
• One way we can do this is to keep current with
  changes and new resources.
• Thank you!
• Kaye Evitt Bray
• kbray1_at_mail.twu.edu
• http//www.brayweb.com