The Education Media Center functions as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the school’s educational process.
· It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.
· It shares and implements the school’s aims and objectives.
· It is involved in the teaching and learning process.
· It is a course center.
· It is a learning laboratory.
· It is a teaching agency.
· It is a service agency.
· A coordinating agency.
· A center of recreational reading, viewing and listening.
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER SERVICES
1. Orientation
- All new teachers are given an orientation on the EMC, its program, role in the total Ateneo academic organization, services, facilities, guidelines and procedures during their in-service program.
2. Selection of print and non-print materials
- The librarians continually select and acquire print and non-print materials that suit the needs, interest and special abilities of the students and teachers.
3. Organization of print and non-print materials
- A technical librarian organizes all the purchased print and non-print materials for easy retrieval.
4. Circulation of print and non-print materials
-The EMC lends out various types of materials to students and teachers.
5. Reference
- The EMC attends to request such bibliographic information from the card catalog, search through books, periodicals, pamphlets, documents and non-print materials.
6. Bibliographic Service
- There are listings of materials and periodical articles to publicize the new materials and periodical articles in the EMC.
7. Media Instruction Program
- The Media Instruction Program (MIP) aims to teach students to be skilful and discriminating users of print and non-print media.
8. Class Supervised Research
- It is a scheduled program of activity particularly in Science and Social Studies.
9. Grade Level Newspaper
- Each grade level is given a subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
10. Mags-on-wheels
- Selected professional and general interest journals are routed in the different grade levels and service area.
11. Photocopying Service
12. Video and Sound Production
- Simple productions for class instruction, program and school wide presentations are put together in the Audio-Visual area.
13. Multi-media Services
- Different non-print media materials are acquired. Teachers are encouraged to maximized use of their materials.
ABSTRACTION
An EMC is a facility designed for the housing and utilization of all educational media within the school. It is the basic requirement for school to render quality service. It is not independent of the school. Rather, like any part of the human body, it is a unit in the school that cooperates with the other units or departments that help the school fulfil its mission and realize its vision by living up to the school’s philosophy and aims. It serves a myriad of roles, among which are:
1. Center of resources
2. laboratory for learning
3. agent of teaching
4. service agency
5. coordinating agency
6. recreational reading center
7. a stepping stone to other resources of the community.
An EMC renders various kinds of services. Its services boil down to improving the teaching-learning process by making it more interactive, collaborative interesting and authentic.
An EMC is a facility of the school system tasked to acquire, maintain, care and promote the full effective use of educational media.
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