Demmer+goal+5

Name Sister Donna Demmer 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: 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. Artifact 1: I did take a few of the classes offered by Todd Wessels on Monday Night Technology. I am hoping he will offer it again and take classes of interest. With many other activities, it was not always easy to make arrangements to be there.

Artifact 2: With having computers in cart and having them wireless, students do many activities using internet. I have a student in my room who is very knowledgeable about computers and is helpful in classroom. I have gone to Atomic learning to work through some new programs to see how to adapt them so I know how to use them in classroom.

=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: 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 use more digital tools rather than just computer. Continue to use flip cameras when doing projects. ||



=**Step 3: On the final TCL day, reflect on each standard and goal you set for yourself. How did you do and why?**= Reflection: To continue to learn more about what is really available on computers. Become more aware of student need to use calculators, flip cameras, digital cameras. Students are very willing to help one another and are becoming more at easy with google docs. I find this to be helpful doing projects, assignments, and activities because they can share with one another and share with me. That way I can go through their work and make corrects and talk to them about errors. It is also possible to put comments on in other colors so they can get suggestions. With google docs they can also work on it at home. If their printers are not working they can print them at school. Some times when students had problems putting pictures on Iowa project, it was suggested to down load Firefox and the student came back excited and said it worked. Had student get into Prezi and set up an account and did a few things with Iowa History. They are eager to learn new programs but at times it can get frustrating when all of a sudden it disappears because they were playing around with the mouse and didn't realize what can happen. I hope to find ways to connect Iowa Core Curriculum and benchmarks to the use of computers. While working on Iowa History used google search for Iowa quizzes. These quizzes gave students the opportunity to realize what they know about Iowa and many things that they still need to discover. Wordle can be a way to have students list things they have learned in a unit in religion, social studies, or even see connections in units.