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VISION
The Oakland Terrace Media Center strives to:
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Create an environment where discovery, collaboration and enjoyment encourage all students to become lifelong learners.
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Foster equitable access to ideas and information for all members of the learning community including students, staff members and their families.
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Promote reading for information and reading for literary experience in support of the curriculum as well as for personal enjoyment.
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Teach, support and provide skills in 21st Century Literacies so that all students will become responsible and effective users of ideas, information and technology.
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Use books and media to build community. "Children deserve to be seen and recognized for their full humanity, and they deserve to have their lived experiences affirmed on the pages of the books that we purchase, promote, highlight, recommend, read aloud, put into curriculum and share with them. This is the beauty and honor, and obligation, of the work that we do with young people. Using books to build community also strengthens our relationships with one another, enables student to empathize and provides them with the tools they will need to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding world." ~Jillian Heise and Julia E. Torres
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Your Media Team
On the left is Media Assistant Mrs. Rupprecht. On the right is Media Specialist Ms. Safford. Below is a note from Ms. Safford.
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My name is Patricia Warnock-Safford and I am your Media Specialist. I started my career as a fifth grade teacher in Charles county in 1987, but moved to Oakland Terrace as a fifth grade teacher in 1999.
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I completed a Master's Degree at Towson University in Instructional Technology in 2005.
Since then, I have worked as a media specialist at Stonegate Elementary and at Burtonsville Elementary. I am a member of the American Library Association, the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Library Services to Children. In Maryland, I am also a member of MASL
I love books, reading, technology, art, and nature.
Stop by and tell me about your favorite book!
Please feel free to contact me anytime at school, by telephone or email.
Ms. Safford
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Policies
Hours
8:30 am - 3:15 pm
Monday - Friday.
Please feel free to stop by before school to return and select new books!
Classes
All students in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade visit the
media center once a week for instruction, literature appreciation and open book exchange.
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Our students in Third- Fifth Grade visit the library every other week for book exchange. For library lessons (research, projects, information literacy), our media specialist meets with classes on a flexible schedule, based on the instructional needs each quarter. As well, the media center is open for all students at 8:55 am each morning for book exchange.
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Instructional
Program
The Media Center’s instructional program centers around three main areas of focus. Examples for each area are below:
Information literacy skills instruction: Collaborative research projects. Defining a topic. Evaluating appropriate print and
electronic resources. Search strategies. Citing sources. Multimedia projects.
Literature: Differentiating between fiction and non-fiction. Connecting to our diverse world through folk tales, non-fiction and biography. Supporting character education through literature. Author and illustrator appreciation.
Library Citizenship: Book Care. Patron’s Catalog instruction. Respecting intellectual property. Internet Safety.
More information about the MCPS school library media program can be found here:
MCPS School Library Media Program
The Oakland Terrace Elementary School Media Center supports the rights of all students to a fully funded, well-staffed school library.
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