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The M.A. in Education with Library Media follows two primary areas of study for the 48.5 credit program:
- School library media graduate coursework (28.5 credits)
- Research and inquiry sequence coursework (16 credits)
School Library Media Courses
You will take 28.5 school library courses including five Antioch and three online required classes.
Antioch University Seattle Library Courses:
The following 5 Antioch library courses are offered:
EDU 602 LIBM: School Library Program Management (3 quarter credits)
This class addresses current issues in school library management; including leadership, advocacy, communication, collaboration and program evaluation. Students develop professional leadership goals and an advocacy plan for a school library program.
Instructor: Marianne Hunter, NBCT, Timberline High School Teacher-Librarian, WLMA President 2006 to 2007
EDU 604 LIBM: Technology-based Instructional Resources (3 quarter credits)
You are introduced to the technology appropriate for a school library program. You examine, evaluate and utilize a wide variety of technology-based instructional resources for use in the classroom and the school library setting. The course emphasizes the role of the librarian in connecting students and teachers to information media regardless of its format. This lab-centered course assists librarians in creating a technology-friendly media center in which technological/instructional tools are an integral part of the library program.
Instructor: Greg Whiteman, executive director of Technology, Kent School District
EDU 607 LIBM: Librarians as Curriculum and Assessment Leaders (3 quarter credits)
You will learn to develop strategies, school programs, units of instruction, and lesson plans to deepen institutional collaboration between the classroom teacher and teacher-librarian through curriculum and assessment planning and delivery. Candidates develop instructional plans around universal library curriculum content and standards as well as individual instructional needs. Course content includes the integration of information literacy skills within the curriculum of the required disciplines such as social studies and literacy. Guidelines for assessment and evaluation tools will be developed as well. The course includes strategies of leadership and advocacy to maximize the library program’s role in increasing student academic achievement. Following the completion of this course, candidates will have complete sets of lesson plans for teaching library curriculum in their respective library classrooms.
Instructor: Kelly Vancil, or Christie Kaaland, core faculty, School of Education, Antioch University Seattle
EDU 608 LIBM: Selections for Collections: Children's and Adolescent Library Materials (3 quarter credits)
You learn how to evaluate and select books, magazines and other print resources for the K-12 school library. You are introduced to a variety of children's authors and illustrators through cultural and genre studies and you develop critical standards for literature and other library materials selection by studying online and print review sources. The course emphasizes using a global, multicultural focus when examining all literature for collection consideration.
Instructor: Christie Kaaland, core faculty, School of Education, Antioch Seattle
EDU 610 LIBM: Library Research Skills: Working in Collaboration (3 quarter credits)
Here you focus on developing a research program that addresses how to understand and instruct student research skills while collaborating with teachers to improve learning. Through hands-on practice and action research, you gain an understanding of research, develop a project and collaborate with a teacher. You explore classroom-based assessments, develop lessons that support ethical use of information and apply inquiry learning.
Instructor: Sarah Applegate, North Thurston High Librarian, WLMA President 2006, National Board Certified Teacher Librarian
In addition to these five required courses, students must take a course in legal issues for the information age, as well as an information searching and retrieval course. The complete your required coursework, you take one three-credit school library elective. It is recommended that you consider your specific professional needs when choosing the elective. Please contact Christie Kaaland for information on the two required and one elective course options.
Antioch University Research Sequence Courses
EDUC601LIBM: Inquiry and Research (4 credits)
In Inquiry and Research you examine the uses of research for school librarians and other educators. You are exposed to the various theories and methods of quantitative and qualitative research. From this base, you pose your own researchable questions and determine the best methods for gathering data. Finally, you deconstruct each component of the research project, with emphasize on the literature review, and begin establishing parameters for your own research project.
EDUC610A LIBM: Inquiry Proposal (4 credits)
Inquiry Proposal begins the inquiry project work. In this course you develop a proposal that delineates a focus for inquiry, the rationale for initiating inquiry and a theoretical perspective around that research topic. In this course you examine the literature review in depth in order to develop the necessary depth of knowledge of the conceptual field related to your topic of inquiry. Finally, you develop a detailed description of the methodology to be used for investigation interpretation.
EDUC610B LIBM: Inquiry Development (4 credits)
The inquiry development phase of the master's degree program, the inquiry project marks the collection and preliminary analysis of specified empirical data, as well as the continuation of reading for the review of literature. In this phase you have the chance to alter your original strategies for data collection if the inquiry you are pursuing requires different types or emphases in data, or in the timeline and activities of collection and analysis. Inquiry Development marks your first attempt to identify significant patterns in behavior, activities and relationships, as well as discernible changes over time in these patterns and in the environments, settings and participants themselves.
EDUC610C LIBM: Inquiry Report (4 credits)
In the culmination of the inquiry project, the inquiry report consists of an introduction that articulates and updates the elements of the project proposal, the literature review, your findings as the researcher and a discussion and interpretation of those findings. This final phase culminates in the reporting of discoveries made through your investigation.
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