Mayer+Goal+1

Name: Tricia Mayer Date Completed: November 12, 2009

=**Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity**= = = === Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. ===


 * a. || promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. ||
 * b. || engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. ||
 * c. || promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. ||
 * d. || model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. ||

=**Step 1: For standard one, 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: c-Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. Artifact 1: At parent-student-teacher conferences, students take the lead in sharing the story of their learning. Our unit requires students to create a portfolio that showcases their work in each subject. Some of the work includes items required by the teacher, and other items may be selected by students. This year, we asked students to also make a digital portfolio - an imovie showcasing that pulled their projects together into one 5 to 6-minute movie. One of the main objectives involved students reflecting on their own artifacts. Some students opted to do this digitally as well, by including a voice-over reflection in the movie. Others chose to type the reflection to be included in the hard copy, binder portfolio.

Artifact 2: As I work through an action research project for my trail, I am including several items of reflection to monitor each student's progress along this journey. We will be using graphic organizers to help remember the integer rules in an 8th grade math class. Students will reflect on their understanding as we progress from applying the rules to more simple positive and negative numbers, to solving equations with integers, including fractions and decimals.

=**Step 2: For standard one, 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: d-model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. Goal: My goal is to engage in sharing professional knowledge with my peers at least one time this year. I would like to share my content knowledge in the area of math with a small group of teachers, by collaborating and sharing resources, ideas, and websites that will improve and vary my instructional delivery.

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

Reflection: