NETS-S Standard 5

Standard:

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:

Performance Indicators for 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.

Reflection:

 The artifacts that helped me master standard 5 were Concept Mapping and the Work Sheet that we had to find. The reason why these two helped me was not because of the information on them, but the way I went about finding them and putting together the information. The Concept Mapping gave me the opportunity to learn how to use the Inspiration software and learn how to make a Concept Map. I have never done either so it was very interesting to see how the project developed as I completed it. The Work Sheet that I found was nothing special but I did not realize there were so many resources on the Web that teachers could use to help their lesson plans. By using the website that we are given we were told to find a work sheet that we could use in our classroom, but I was dumbfounded at how many sites that teachers have right at their fingertips. Plus finding that work sheet was the easiest to do out of that whole project we had to do.

I know that with the work I put into those two projects that they helped me understand standard 5. The reason for this being is that each one taught me about new technology and different ways to be more aware of what is out there. I enjoyed doing these projects because they truly taught me about staying connected with other teachers, being open to new ideas, and to never give up when things get confusing.

 These artifacts demonstrate my achievement by showing you that I can do something that I have never done before and that when you continue to work hard it pays off in the end. I made perfect scores on both of those artifacts and I could not believe it even when I saw it. I thought that my Concept Map was totally wrong, but I did my best to follow directions in every way possible and it paid off.

Artifacts/Evidence

•   Concept Mapping
• Work Sheet

Future Learning Goals:

The future learning goals that I plan to use in my classroom from mastering standard 5 are very simple. I will always keep an open door policy for ideas and activities the kids hear about. I want them to be able to teach each other and me as much as I teach them. Also I want to make it a mandatory thing for all my students to try to at least show me one new skill they have learned from using technology. I won’t penalize them if they do not; however, for the kids who do; they will get a reward that has something involving technology. I have not quite figured out how I would do it, but I figure because technology is such an important part in learning now days then they might as well get rewarded for knowing about it.

Doing these positive reinforcements in my classes would strengthen their knowledge and mine. Kids will find out how technology is imperative in our everyday lives a little at a time; rather than all at once in a computer class that might be kind of scary to them. I hope to be a teacher that can show kids just how useful and helpful technology is in our lives.