LB #18 ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

• What is an educational media center?

                     The Educational 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.

1. It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.
2. It shares and implements the schools'aims and objeectives.
3. It is involved in the teaching and learning process.
4. It is a source center.
5. It is a learning laboratory.
6. It is a teaching agency.
7. It is a service agency.
8. A coordinating agency.
9. A center for recreational reading, viewing and listening.

• What roles and functions does an educational media center perform to serve the teaching learning process?

Roles of EMC

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.

FUNCTIONS OF EMC

1. The institutional media services
2. Media and instruction
3. Classroom facilities
4. Media program

          An EMC is a facility of the school system tasked to acquire,maintain,care and promote the full effective use of educational media. It houses both old and new technologies meant to make learning more efficient and effective. It facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional media. It organizes learning activities for students and teachers alike for them to upgrade and improve on their technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of motivating them to keep on developing their communication, analytical, integrative, creative and collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning.