Palm+Goal+1

Name: Erin Palm Date Completed: November 11, 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: 1a – Promote, support, and model creative innovative thinking and inventiveness.

Artifact 1: iMovie of shape walk – children found shapes around school, took pictures with digital camera, and recorded their voices describing the shape (Yo veo un círculo).

Artifact 2: Shape Book using iPhoto and Pages – children inserted their shape pictures into pages and completed the sentence “Yo veo un…”.

=**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:1d – Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Goal: Read Marzano’s Nine and Technology in the classroom. Discuss strategies listed and incorporate some of these strategies in my instruction. Find ways to use technology more effectively in the classroom.

=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 accomplished this goal. I read Marzano's Nine and Thechnology in the classroom. I have incorporated some of the strategies in my instruction - increasing intrinsic motivation, using sorting strategies, and using graphic organizers are a few examples.