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Name: Karen Nank Date Completed:

=**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: engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. Artifact 1: After unit on animal adaptations in 5th grade science, students researched a chosen animal on which to create a Blabberize document sharing what they learned on the adaptations of their animal. Artifact 2: 6th grade students created a Comic Life document to re-tell the Fantasy book they read for a monthly book report.

=**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: In preparing students for 21st century learning and one-to-one computers, I realize the importance of student reflection on their digital work. I will become more aware of the reflection process to increase student understanding and success.
 * promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. ||
 * 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: I have become much more aware of the importance of and making time for student reflection. After the teaching of our 6th grade interdisciplinary unit I was pleased to hear the students talk among themselves about what they liked about their final projects and what they wished they could re do. I am challenging myself to incorporate reflections in a variety of ways.