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Type in the content of your page here. Name: PAULA WHITE Date Completed: NOV. 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: a- promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness Artifact 1: Students research different areas of Iowa History and then created their own powerpoint to share to the class.

Artifact 2: During center time, I found websites on analogies and elapsed time and had the students use those websites to learn more about those topics.

=**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: b- engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources Goal: I would like to get in the habit when students ask me a question that I can't answer that I show them that I would go to the internet to find the answer.

=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 have done that two times that I can think of. Of course, I'm sure were more times.