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Standard 10 - Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community.
The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.

Evidence:
Technology in Education Wikispace

Rationale:
The Technology in Education Wikispace was created by me to use in an Inservice session that I conducted in my school district. I was asked to do a session on the different technology tools that I use in my classroom or know of that would be of interest to the other teachers in my school district. The wiki explains the importance of using technology in the classroom. It contains a pages that explain blogs and wikis, gives resources to use when creating a blog or a wiki, and examples of blogs and wikis already created by teachers. There is even a page that is available for teachers viewing the wiki to edit to see how easy it is to edit or create a wiki. There is a page that contains some links on videos in the classroom. Teachers can use these links to find already created videos or create their own. Finally, there is a page that contains links to a wide variety of other useful technologies that can be used in the classroom. These links are divided into three categories: Lesson Planning; Games, Webquests, Simulations, Online Activities; and Other Web Resources.

This wiki allowed be to compile many of the resources that I have gathered throughout this program and through exploring the Internet. I was then able to share these resources with teachers who can then easily access the wiki at anytime to use them in their classroom. After the Inservice session, teachers also now know that I have a passion for using technology in my classroom and am more than willing to help them find technologies to use in theirs. Students have benefited because their teachers now have a resource available to them allowing them to find and use various new and free technologies their classrooms increasing student participation and motivation.

KSD:
//10.K.2 The teacher understands how factors in the students’ environment outside of school (e.g. family circumstances, community environments, health, and economic conditions) may influence students’ lives and learning.// Students use technology everyday outside of school so why should they have to “unplug” when they enter the school building. It is important to allow students to use technology and to encourage teachers to use technology in the classroom to increase student learning.

//10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment.// Through this Inservice session, I was able to get together with my colleagues and share what has been working in my classrooms in hopes that other teachers will try some of the ideas and make their classrooms more productive and a better learning environment for the students.

//10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students.// By conducting an Inservice session for school colleagues on technology in education, I was able to work with the other professionals in my school district to help improve their classrooms to increase student’s interest and motivation.