Standard V
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 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.
- Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning
- 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
- 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
- Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community
Reflection
Standard five discuss how teachers use of professional development can enable them to improve their professional practice, increase learning, develop leadership skills through the use of digital tools and resources. The Forum artifact is an example of global learning communities that explore creative applications of technology. Scoopit artifact is an example of shared communication in community building. Scoopit enables the user to gather multiple articles related to a particular topic. Scoopit also enables users to reflect and make comments on research materials. Blogfolio artifacts is an example of a teaching sources that outlines materials, articles, teaching standards, and discussion. The ThinkLink artifact is also a great source for community building through the use of technology shared by others.
Artifacts
Future Learning Goal
Professional growth and development is a vital component of teaching. All teachers should continue to learn and develop new skills so that they are able to teach all students. As a future learning goal, I want to continue to learn new technologies so that i can continually build leadership skills.