ROLE AND

FUNCTIONS OF AN
EDUCATIONAL
MEDIA CENTER

 A facility of the school system tasked to require, maintain, care

and promote the full effective use of educational media. It
facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional
media. It organizes learning activities for students and

teachers for them to upgrade and improve on their

technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of
motivating them to keep on developing on their
communication, analytical, integrative, creative and
collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning

What is an Educational
Media Center?

 provides teacher and students easy access for information

search. The Educational Media Center functions
as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for
quality education by enriching all parts of the schools
educational process. And it is designed for the housing
and utilization of all educational media with in the
school.

Importance of an
Educational Media Center

 Center for resources

Recreational reading center

Laboratory for learning

A stepping stone to the other

recreational activities in school

Agent of teaching
Service agency

Roles of EMC

Coordinating agency

CREATION/PRODUCTION OF
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Suit the special needs of teacher and student

Functions of EMC

CONSULTANT SERVICE
The center media specialist act as resource persons for
teacher in designing media for instruction

Functions of EMC

INFORMATION ON
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The center provides information about innovations and

recent development in specific subject areas and in the
general field of education

Functions of EMC

MATERIALS FOR CLASS/INDIVIDUALIZED

LEARNING

The media center mat serve the purpose of centralizing

education media equipment and materials for accessibility
to potential users.

Functions of EMC

EMC for Persons

with Special
Needs

Provides educational and at the same time

assistive resources for them to be able to keep with
educational innovations and to assist them in their
educational needs.

PECS (Picture Exchange

Communication System)

Jigsaw Puzzles

Talking Calculator

Talking Dictionary

JAWS (Job Access with

Speech) and the Braille

 A functional EMC motivates and inspires. It has

to be overemphasized that a school put the right persons
in the EMC. All the technologies housed in the EMC will
be laid to waste if the media specialist and the assistants
are not very knowledgeable and are not committed to the
operation and manipulation or educational media.

Educational Media Center

Thank You!!