Responsibilities

• Use the TEK’s/SE’s as the basis for instruction as well as using library curriculum products including Library Scope and Sequence. Provide group instruction and individual guidance to students to help them locate resources and use research techniques and self-manage their learning.
• Prepare strategic plans to assure meeting School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas.
• Participates as an educational leader, an equal partner, and a change agent in the curriculum development process at both the campus and district levels by consulting with teachers on appropriate use of materials and scheduling of materials for classroom instruction.
• Models and promotes collaborative planning, cooperative teaching, and direct instruction as determined by learners’ needs and state curriculum standards.
• Models and promotes the highest standard of conduct, ethics, and integrity in the use of the Internet and other print and electronic resources and instructs students in the ethical use of resources, to locate, gather, select, synthesize, and evaluate relevant information.
• Provides and promotes ongoing learning opportunities for students and staff that fosters connections that all stakeholders are actively participating and positively engaged, particularly in the areas of integration of information technology and information literacy skills.
• Supervises Media Assistant(s), student aides, and has ability to work with multiple interruptions and multi-task under pressure.
• Provides instructional access to library resources and facilities through open, flexible scheduling of classes, small groups, and individuals and creates an environment, in which students follow acceptable standards of behavior that are conducive to learning.
• Provides a balanced, carefully selected, and systemically organized collection of library resources, print and digitally, that are sufficient to meet student needs and are continuously monitored to be current and relevant in each subject area while positively responding to changes that users need and want in resources and services and are in compliance with the collection development policies of Dallas ISD.
• Implement effective strategies and techniques to systematically perform library management operations such as budgeting; purchasing; scheduling; managing and maintaining facilities and resources; supervising adults, volunteers, and children; reporting; grant writing; and overseeing circulation and inventory.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a directly related field with valid Texas Library certification
• Two years minimally as a highly qualified teacher
• Working knowledge of library and information science
• Demonstrated ability to instruct and manage students in a varied environment
• Demonstrated strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred
• bilingual skills a plus
• Demonstrated willingness to remain current with the latest developments in the profession
• Demonstrated flexibility to cope with the challenges of a rapidly changing world