UCM+Practicum+Director


 * Responsibilities of the Practicum Director **
 * 1) Act as a liaison in acquainting the mentoring library media specialist and other personnel with the nature and purpose of the practicum experience.
 * 2) Assist with the identification of prospective mentoring library media specialists and the assignment of practicum students.
 * 3) Provide pertinent materials to practicum students, mentoring library media specialists, and school principals.
 * 4) Provide practicum students with information regarding course objectives, requirements, activities to be evaluated, grading practices and policies.
 * 5) Receive from and discuss with the student the practicum plan.
 * 6) Confer with the mentoring library media specialist regularly to discuss the needs of the practicum student.
 * 7) Assisting the supervising library media specialist with the evaluation process, especially in the area of reflective self-evaluation.
 * 8) Evaluate the total environment where the practicum student is placed.
 * 9) Give constructive feedback to the practicum student via email
 * 10) Assist with any problem situations encountered during the practicum.
 * 11) Oversee preparation of the final evaluation and determine the final grade after consulting with the supervising library media specialist.