The Educational Media center, in order to fulfill its mission, is present in both CIS main building and Early Learning Center and ensures the homogeneous rendering of all its services. The EMC provides different services and equipment for consultation purposes and personal work. At the Educational Media Center students, faculty and staff will find a complete, updated collection, on any medium, to pursue teaching, research and learning tasks, as well as a team of staff with the necessary training and experience training and experience to deal with queries, point users in the right direction in the search for information and
simplify library transactions.

The CIS Educational Media Center includes the Elementary library and the MS/HS library . The media specialists at each side strive to support the curriculum with five primary services: information access, research and library instruction, material selection,
computer area and audiovisual equipment distribution.

Information Access

The EMC provides print materials, current reference resources, fiction and non fiction resources, and an audiovisual collection.
The online resources include Encarta and Librarians Edge, the library catalog to all CIS teachers and students.

Research Instruction

Research Instruction includes the Library Hour program to students in Nursery to Grade 5. It is a forty-five minute, once-a-week scheduled visit with the homeroom teachers to the Educational Media Center to use library resources and to learn or practice recently acquired information skills instruction and implement the library literary appreciation program. Instruction is also conducted on an individual basis when librarians assist students and teachers on routine assignments and major research papers.

Currently in development is a scheduled instruction for MS/HS students on the location of sources, the selection of materials, and the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate information.

Material Selection
Material Selection is based on review of the curriculum review journals, teachers’ recommendations, and students’ suggestions. Students are exposed to new titles through displays, book talks, browsing and assignment-driven searches.

Computer area
The EMC computer area is a learning resource center which supports the students, faculty and staff of Cebu International School. The EMC computer area supports curriculum based programs, general productivity applications and a scanner workstation. The
computer area is open during regular library hours.

Audiovisual equipment
The EMC provides access to the equipment needed to support the audiovisual collection. The media EMC function as a campus-wide equipment distribution center and provide equipment setup and classroom support services to faculty and staff.
Equipment resources are also available for onsite use within the EMC facility.

A graduate of CIS is expected to recognize when information is needed and has to locate, evaluate, and use information effectively. Students are expected to learn how information is organized, how to find information, and how to use information. The professional librarians, in coordination with the classroom teachers, spend their collaborative efforts providing activities that are focused towards these ends through research, literary appreciation activities, and frequent reading practice sessions.

Nursery - Kindergarten 2

Nursery to Kindergarten 2 students are given opportunities to experience actual print and non-print media use for the pursuit of recognizing, appreciating, and using them as tools for personal growth and knowledge. Many of the activities are visual, linguistic, auditory, and or a combination of the three. In the process, children learn language, concepts, and values. Media used are video, audio, print and teacher-geared educational programs and presentations. Quarterly classroom themes are explored while the
students are immersed in educationally rich situations.

Grades 1-3

Grade 1 – 3 students are focused on the love of reading through an introduction to various genres. Dewey Decimal classification of books is introduced by guiding students to find materials related to their lessons. Many of the activities build on input that is
visual, linguistic, auditory or a combination of the three.

Grades 4-5

Grade 4 – 5 students build on their reading abilities by being guided toward more information problem solving situations following the Big Six Scheme. Collaboration with teachers in connection to content subjects is pursued to practice students in research.
More technological resources are utilized in conjunction with such research efforts.

Middle School and High School Services

The EMC supports information acquisition of Middle/High school students and teachers (I.B. program and otherwise) by pursuing the following objectives:

• Introduce information and/or literacy skills which assist students to complete projects from the research phase to he final product
• Assist students to obtain and use information from outside sources.
• Assist students to use local university libraries for research, especially IB students who must write extended says.
• Assure that library facilities and resources (book and media collections, internet access, the Audio Visual Resource (AVR) room and reading areas) are maintained, upgraded, and current.

CIS EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

 

Departments:

English - Math -  Science -  Social Studies -  Physical Education -  Foreign Language -  Music -  Art  -  IT/Computer   EMC