Brehm+-+Goal+5

Name: Emmy Brehm Date Completed: Spring 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:** (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.


 * Artifact 1:** Students created animoto videos and then created links on our class website to share the videos; students commented on each others' videos


 * Artifact 2:**

=**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:**


 * Goal:** Consistently read professional journals; add journal feed to iGoogle page

=****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 have worked toward this goal over the year. Through Keystone, I have accessed a variety of professional journals, including //Phi Delta Kappan//, //English Journal//, and //Writer's Digest//. I have also passed these on to colleagues to students. I found that students especially benefit from reading about reading, writing, and instruction. This has helped me increase students' view of content relevancy.