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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:  Rationale: In the spring of 2010, I offered technology training sessions to all staff in our district. My building’s technology committee felt strongly as I did that we needed to be doing more in the way of offering technology training to stay up to date with new resources. No one had ever offered a session on Google, and I felt staff would find many of the features beneficial. Everyone was amazed to see the features within Google. I believe that some staff believed it was going to be another session on Internet searches. I feel that it is my responsibility as a life long learner to share my knowledge not only with my students but my colleagues as well.

KSD:

10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works. //By offering the training session on Google, staff members were able to set-up a classroom calendar which they can share with parents and other staff members as a way of reaching out to parents and community members. //

10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment. //By sharing Google with my colleagues, I was able to give them some resources to make their day to day life more organized through creating a calendar for school and another for home. They could invite others to share their calendar to alleviate a communication barrier. I also demonstrated Google docs as a way to publish files for themselves as well as students. By implementing Google docs with students, it will alleviate issues with file compatibility between home and school. //

10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students. //I felt it was important to share current technology resources with colleagues. By giving teachers valuable tools, they will be more apt to implement them within their classroom. And in so doing, they will be working towards improving the learing environment. We as teachers need to be willing to work together and share our strengths to make each other better teachers. //