Lesson 18 Roles and Functions of an Education Media Center

                          Importance of an educational media center ? The importance of Educational Media Center is to provides teacher and students easy access for information search.    The Educational Media Center functions as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the schools educational process. And it is designed for the housing and utilization of all educational media with in the school.
•                          The centers specific function A media program has the following elements assigned to it: Consultant service to improve instruction, learning and use of educational media resources and facilities;Upgrade instructional standards through the use of educational media resources; Information on new educational development.Creation/production of instructional materials to suit the special needs of teacher and student Upgraded research through media support to individual investigation and exploration; Multi-media facilities with areas made available to students, teachers and the media staff. Educational media equipment made available for classroom use to student and teachers.Consultant service The center media specialist act as resource persons for teacher in designing media for instruction. These specialist may also work directly with students in selecting and evaluating materials they need for presentation and learning purposes Upgrade Instruction via media An educational media center is made by a professional staff compose by media specialists, technicians and media aids. the staff function to serve media users through a program of services which make educational media available for instruction , learning and research purpose.
•                  Information on Educational Development The center provides information about innovations and recent development in specific subject areas and in the general field of education. It also keeps teacher posted on available in-service workshops and courses, conference and professional activities which they may find advantage for their professional growth.Production of Instructional Materials. The media center staff assists the various academic department and their teacher in the creative conceptualization and production of materials and devices for improve instruction.