NETS-T+Standard+5


 * 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.


 * This group of indicators is about teachers taking care of teachers, growing. Demonstrate what you know, share what you know, participate to enhance what you know, and borrow what you need from other teachers, the students, and the community. **

Lisa

5. a, c) The use of a **Google Form** could be beneficial in the collection of data when trying to determine teacher and parent views on the effectiveness of a specific program within a building (i.e. the implementation of special education services). It would be a great way to inform those implementing services of the priorities of stakeholders effected by the program and assist in determining how others feel services could be most effectively implemented, depending on student, staff and parent need. -Jennifer Royer

google docs could be used to share information about programs that work (and maybe didnt work) so that others could get valuable information that maybe is left out of the description that the seller of the program might not know or just leaves out.

Jeff Harris

A) A blog started by a teacher looking for information about implementing more technology into a math curriculum would be great. Think of all the lesson plans that would take shape when 20 teachers replied, think about 200 teachers replying!!! Not all of the information would be perfect for my classes but with 200 options to choose from...the sky's the limit. Lisa F || A blog would work for this teaching standard because you could have your students communicate with you through the blog. They could use it for questions on assignments and projects. You could also have them post their assignments on the blog, but for math I would only have them post small answers because it would be hard to type out their work and answer on the computer. But it would be a great way to communicate. --Emily

5c. An RSS feed would allow a teacher to receive all of the new information sent out regarding best practices in teaching. By having the information come to the teacher, it is more likely the teacher will read the information. Also, if some question as to best practices comes up, the teacher could choose to receive certain RSS feeds for awhile to amass some information on the topic for discussion in a meeting later. It is a much more efficient use of time. -Vicki

I see a blog being used in the classroom for homework discussion. What an easy way to get questions answered about homework. Classmates and the teacher can be right there to respond.

Josh West

I would like to use the RSS feed for updated information for the weather to graph for math class the averages or changes in the temperature from day to day or to look at stock values as they change. We could do a project and use the feeds rather than using newspapers that are a day old. This way we would be using the most current information and it would be sent to me so we wouldn't have to search for it. --Emily