PHILOSOPHY

The Media Center program embraces literacy in all its expressions, encourages life-long learning, ensures individual rights of freedom to information, advances one's knowledge as a teaching center, and expands one's awareness about the use of information in a global world.
The Media Center is an information center where users seek out information, and synthesize or analyze information for presentation in final product form - be it oral, written, or visual. Its focus transcends both time and place. 

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Pioneer High School Media Center is:

- to provide a developmentally appropriate, prepared learning environment with diversified and varied materials and resources to promote lifelong learning and literacy.

- to teach students not only how to retrieve, interpret, and synthesize information from a variety of informational sources but also to make critical decisions regarding the information's value.

Therefore, the Pioneer High School Media Center is a place which provides equity and freedom of access to information; provides service to all curricular areas; supports individual needs, instructs classes in the usage of informational skills; and celebrates the enjoyment of reading. 

Instructional Student Outcomes

As a result of information skill instruction students at Pioneer High School will:

*learn how to use libraries for lifelong learning in the location and interpretation of information from different resources.

*be able to apply critical thinking skills in support of their informational needs.

*develop an understanding and appreciation about contributions made by different cultures to the areas of literature and media.

*understand their responsibility as citizen in the use and care of materials loaned from libraries.

*understand the ethical responsibilities of materials protected by the copyright law.

*utilize online databases to search for information from resources in digital form.

*develope independent learning and thinking skills to seek out information based on information reserach and production skills learned during their instructional time spent at Pioneer High School.