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﻿ Standard 5 Teachers know how to manage a classroom. The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

Evidence: []  Rationale: Our school district utilizes PowerSchool as its student management system. I use this web-based tool to enter grades and comments at the end of each semester for all 575 students grades 3-6. I also utilize the export feature on the admin side to create labels, student databases for PTA projects, print semester progress reports and set up my gradebook for each class. I also print student access letters for all 5th graders and demonstrate how to login, review course grades, verify attendance information and track lunch account transactions. Through our district implementation of this web-based tool, it has allowed me flexibility in how and when I work on progress reports. It also holds the student accountable for his or her work because as long as they Internet accces they are able to login and track their progress.

KSD:

5.K.5 The teacher recognizes factors and situations that are likely to promote or diminish intrinsic motivation, and knows how to help students become selfmotivated. //By allowing students’ access to PowerSchool, it removes the responsibility of notifying the student of missing work and places it back on themselves. It causes them to be more intrinsically motivated and responsible for their own learning. //

5.S.1 The teacher creates a smoothly functioning learning community in which students assume responsibility. //As I stated earlier, PowerSchool has become a great tool in holding the student accountable. Another feature of PowerSchool is granting parent access for each child enrolled in the district. It keeps the home and school connection working. //

5.D.4 The teacher recognizes the value of intrinsic motivation to students’ life-long growth and learning. //Intrinsic motivation is a life long skill students will need as they graduate and move into the work world. By granting student access to PowerSchool, students play a more active and vital role in their own education. //