Library Media Specialist, Elementary Level - Cheshire Public Schools

Library Media Specialist, Elementary Level - Cheshire Public Schools. Directly teach students in grades 1-6 at two schools, using standards, formative assessment, and best practices teaching and learning strategies. Collaborate with other district librarians to develop benchmark assessments and library research performance tasks and rubrics. Assist students with print and electronic research and problem-solving. Teach Internet safety and search skills. Sustain and build the school's library collection. Enhance, with teachers and principal, positive and lifelong reading habits and attitudes in all students. Develop an atmosphere in the library that is welcoming and communicates expectations for analytic thinking, questioning, intellectual curiosity, and the pursuit of credible evidence. (CERT. #062) EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 2007. CLOSING DATE: April 20, 2007 - 4:00 p.m. Call the Job Opportunities Line at 203-250-2411. Leave your name, address and the EXACT title of the position for which you are applying and an application will be mailed to you.