Goal+1+Answers

Name: Jeff Tice Date Completed: 4-11-10

=**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. Artifact 1: On a daily basis I try to relate all that I am teaching to what has happened either to myself or to others that can be used to learn something about the world today. I want them to realize that every decision or choice that they make today can influence what their tomorrow will be like.

Artifact 2: I try to integrate real world issues and or problems to all projects that they do. We are in the process of working on a webquest on penguins. As they are working on this they will be asked questions about the penguins habitat and if they are in danger from outside entities, for example oil spills or poaching. These are issues that 3rd graders would otherwise have no idea about, so hopefully it raises their eyebrows to this real world issue.

=**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: c Goal: I am going to give students more opportunities to work as a team in a collaborative manner and to use more self-assessment tools to check for understanding. I am going to allow more time for self reflection on what they have done.

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

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