Cokato Elementary Media Center

Cokato Kids Care

Media Center

Media Center Mission

The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. 

             ---Information Power:  Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (1988), p.1

Media Center Mission and Programs

Programs

 

· Weekly check-out classes with each class section that model effective and

       enthusiastic use of books as sources of pleasure and information.      

 

· Media skills classes, developmentally appropriate to each grade level, that teach

      students to access, critique, and effectively apply information.

 

· Collaboration with classroom teachers and other professionals to integrate the

       media program into the curriculum to promote students' highest achievements. 

 

· Access to a full range of information through the vehicle of technology in the form

      of computer-based learning programs, electronic networks and data bases, and 

               future resource sharing systems.   

 

Curriculum (see district)