Goal+5

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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: d. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. Artifact 1: Led the meeting and taught the students Power School report cards and grade book. Artifact 2: Helping individual teachers in my building to use technology in their teaching, De streaming and use of projector, teaching them to incorporate technology in their teaching. 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: To read current research and how to use digital tools and resources to support student learning. 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 used two tools that I have learned. One was google.docs. All of my students have been doing writing assignments on this. I had last year, introduced this. At the time only 2 students used it to type stories. This year it was an assignment and all the students were required to do their work using google.docs. It was a spring poem, and we had written it at home. All typed it and successfully used google.docs. The students have become very comfortable using it to do work at home. It has made possible deadlines that can be met successful.