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Name Rhonda Koppes Date Completed: March 17, 2010 =**5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership**= ===Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:===


 * a. || participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. ||
 * b. || exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others. ||
 * c. || evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning. ||
 * d. || contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. ||

=**Step 1: For standard five, select the indicator that is your strongest suit for the standard and give two examples (artifacts) of why you selected it as your strongest suit.**= Indicator selected: a Artifact 1: Attending TCL the past two years has helped me to be stronger in my technology tools for classroom learning.

Artifact 2: Trying different math websites given out by our technology leader and sharing websites that I have found with the parents and students, as well as my teaching partner.

=**Step 2: For standard five, select the indicator that is your "least strongest" suit for the standard and write a professional goal of how you are going to increase your competency with the goal this year.**= Indicator selected: b Goal: Sharing ideas and web sites that I have learned with my teaching partner and our technology specialist and then together planning ways to use them in the curriculum.

=Step 3: On the final TCL day, reflect on each standard and goal you set for yourself. How did you do and why?=

Reflection: I feel that I have gained much knowledge and insight into trying new ways of integrating technology into the classroom. I have worked with our tech. coordinator to develop different lessons using more technology in my classroom. I feel that it is always good to learn new ways of teaching concepts and through this class it has pushed me to do just that. I realize that this is just a start and that I need to continue to work on sharing ways we can use them in our curriculum and to continue to work on finding new ideas to enhance my teaching of integrating technology in my classroom.