krammen+goal+1

Name: Mary Ann Krammen Date Completed: 4/13/10

=**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: b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. Artifact 1: Used laptops to witness Haiti earthquake. This spawned discussion of why so much damage, how the Haitian people live differently than we do, climate/cultural differences, etc. We had a collection effort and prayer services.

Artifact 2: Watched Decorah eagle nest and documented in scientific research style, observations made regarding activity at the nest. Students recorded such things as: dates of egg laying, dates of hatching, types of food brought to the nest (pidgeons, rabbits, squirrels, fish), behavior of chicks and parents, etc. Most interesting was how parents separated the smallest chick from two older siblings by using nesting material built up between them and using their bodies as a barrier.

=**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: Incorporate google docs in order to allow all students to engage in the editing/reporting process with their peers. The idea is that all students can share their projects with selected friends and all can watch the teacher/student editing process together. Hopefully, students watching will be able to do some of the editing on their own after watching this process.

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

Reflection: Anyone who has ever edited young students' written work, can attest to the fact that it is a lengthy process. Some of the students watching the editing process through google docs live on their computers, were able to better understand the editing that was required on their own project. They responded during editing with comments like, "Oh yeah, just like Bob's story." This was very helpful, and I will use it again.