Palm+Goal+5

Name Date Completed: =**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: I have met with my teaching partner and shared with her some of the things I am doing in my classroom. I helped her incorporate more technology in her instruction. I have shared some interactive web sites with her to help the children build their comfort level with the laptops.

Artifact 2: I shared a video I made for some of my struggling students with the staff. This video was something the children could take home and keep to practice identifying syllables and blending syllables to make words.

=**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: 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.

Goal: I need to incorporate more of the new technologies into my instruction. There are a lot of wonderful resources out there, but they take time to investigate and incorporate and I need to make more time to do this.

=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 learned about more websites today that I would love to use in my classroom. Glogster sounds really neat, but I'm not sure how I would use this at the kindergarten level.