This masters degree program offers teachers a program to obtain a certification to increase employment opportunities.

This program meets Washington state competencies for the Library Media endorsement in addition to the masters of education. At the end of this program students will be able to:

• improve student learning by providing leadership within the educational community;
• develop, implement, and evaluate the school library media program and manage personnel, information systems, resources, and facilities;
• evaluate, select, and maintain resources to provide collections that are integral to the educational goals of the school;
• use a variety of resources to teach students and others in the school community to develop independence in the information problem-solving process including: defining, retrieving, analyzing, interpreting, organizing, evaluating, synthesizing, and presenting information and ideas;
• demonstrate teaching skills in literacy, collaboration, and integrating information literacy with content curriculum.  Candidates design culturally responsive learning experiences using a variety of instructional strategies and assessments that measure the impact on student learning. Candidates guide learners to reflect on their learning growth and their ethical use of information. Candidates use data and information to reflect on and revise the effectiveness of their instruction;
• demonstrate the ways learners grow within and across cognitive, psychomotor, affective, and developmental domains. Candidates engage learners’ interests to think, create, share and grow as they design and implement instruction that integrates the National School Library Standards;
• use a variety of strategies to develop life-long learners who read for a wide range of purposes;
• apply standards and school goals and objectives to develop collaborative relationships within the school and community to deliver integrated instruction, reading advocacy, and information services.