Demmer+Goal+1

Name: Sister Donna Demmer Date Completed: October 8.2009

=**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: a-Promote, support and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. Artifact 1:Students wrote a report about a Native American Tribe and created a diorama using the information that they found from the information that they discovered.

Artifact 2: Students created a Bio poem about themselves and were working on researching a saint. They are doing this on google docs so they were able to work on it outside of school time.

=**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: Goal: Ask students what they learned from the activities and ways that they can use this technology/skill later on in life. Trying to ask how they will use this information or technology in the future
 * c. || promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. ||
 * c. || promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. ||

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

Reflection: Mrs. Mullen and I do a lot of team planning for some activities when we use technology. Mr. Nuti is willing to help us set up google docs so I am able to share their work. Students are creative when they are allowed to think outside the box.