Standard+7


 * Standard 7: Engages in professional growth **

The teacher: a. demonstrates habits and skills of continuous inquiry and learning. b. works collaboratively to improve professional practice and student learning. c. applies research, knowledge, and skills from professional development opportunities to improve practice. d. establishes and implements professional development plans based upon the teacher needs aligned to the Iowa Teaching Standards and district/building student achievement goals. e. provides an analysis of student learning and growth based on teacher-created tests and authentic measures as well as any standardized and district wide tests.

• Description of artifact: //This screenshot shows some of the notes I took as I attended the ITEC conference in October 2014.//
 * Artifact for Standard 7.a--Notes from ITEC Conference, Oct. 2014 (2014 - 15) **

• Describe why you chose this artifact to meet the standard and criteria : // As a TICL team member, I was fortunate to attend the statewide TICL conference in Des Moines in October 2014. My notes from the two days refer to the keynote and breakout sessions I attended, and I've referred to them several times as I set up coding activities in the Middle School and as I tried A Google A Day with some study hall students. //// I'm hopeful that after I become more familiar with more of the things I learned about that I can approach my colleagues and offer assistance and information that could be used in their classrooms. // You can see all of my notes when by [|clicking HERE].

• Description of artifact: //Screenshot of the essential learnings and pacing document for elementary library work//
 * Artifact for Standard 7.b--2011-2012 Essential Learnings and Pacing Document (2014 - 15) **

• Describe why you chose this artifact to meet the standard and criteria : // During the past two years, we elementary librarians have been able to work collaboratively during our early release days, as well as during some of our full days devoted to professional development. We developed--and continue to revise--our essential learnings and pacing for lessons throughout the year. //



The entire document can be accessed HERE.

• Description of artifact: //Screen shots showing the home pages of the elementary libraries and middle school library blogs.//
 * Artifact for Standard 7.c--Elementary Libraries Blog and Middle School Library Blog (2014 - 15) **

• Describe why you chose this artifact to meet the standard and criteria: // After attending a conference that highlighted Web 2.0 tools--and in keeping with a hope that the library would be more transparent to students, parents, colleagues, and community members--Melissa and I developed an elementary libraries blog, and I independently created a middle school library blog. Neither of us had a lot of experience using Blogger, but in working together, we believe we created an elementary libraries blog that would be informative and helpful to students, parents, and colleagues. I am hopeful that the middle school library blog will be a site students, teachers, and others also find useful. Both blogs are works in process, and as we gather feedback about their content and layout, we intend to revise and retool as needed. // []

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• Description of artifact: //Screenshot of a portion of the Responsive Classroom reflection//
 * Artifact for Standard 7.d--2011 - 2012 JPED Plan (2017 - 18) **

• Describe why you chose this artifact to meet the standard and criteria : //In the current school year, the Encore team is reading the Responsive Classroom book specifically targeted for teachers of "special areas." Part of our work to implement this professional development is to meet regularly to talk about our progress and reflect on the pieces we're including in our practice and classrooms. This work directly aligns and relates to our building student achievement goals.// Click HERE to access the full document.