Language School Library Activities Coordinator for 2024-25 school year, Na’atik Language and Cultural Institute, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico. Deadline: 15 July 2024.
Purpose of role: To take ownership of our small trilingual library, promoting literacy and the love of reading among our English, Spanish and Maya students. To deliver library based ESL classes to children and young adults. To develop and manage a schedule of extracurricular and intercultural activities in the library.
Specific activities:
- Welcoming and orienting students to the library, its programs, and its resources
- Collaborating with English teachers to create a curriculum of accessible library-based English as a second language classes which complement the students’ regular classes.
- Creating and promoting an extra-curricular program of activities in the library for English language students
- Promoting library programs for students and parents
- Managing volunteers from the local community and our Spanish and Maya language immersion (MaS) program
- Working with the English teachers and MaS program to create and promote intercultural activities amongst students
- Maintaining the library catalog and managing all aspects of circulation
- Promoting the borrowing of books, encouraging students to select level and interest appropriate reading materials
- Maintaining all library resources and materials
- Working with our Communications and Fundraising Manager as needed to promote the library to the local community and to maintain funding and in-kind donations
- Organizing and assisting with special events and field trips
- Teaching substitute English classes, when necessary
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