Colbert+Goal+5

Name Michele Colbert Date Completed: Mar. 24, 2010 =**5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership**= ===Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:===


 * a. || participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. ||
 * b. || exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others. ||
 * c. || evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning. ||
 * d. || contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. ||

=**Step 1: For standard five, 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 Artifact 1: Attending TCL last year and this year to gain insight into more ways to use technology into our curriculum.

Artifact 2: Trying different web sites given out by our technology leader and sharing web sites that I have found with parents students and teaching partner. Science-Foss web, interactive Scholastic writing web site.

=**Step 2: For standard five, 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 Goal: Sharing ideas and web sites that I have learned about with my teaching partner and our technology specialist and then together planning ways to use them in our curriculum.

=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 think I have done a good job on this goal. I have shared many technology ideas and web sites during common planning time. This is something that is important to continue because there are always new resources to seek out and share and this is an area that I can always improve on.