Year 2

Second year of a two year program

As a culminating reflection of your professional growth, you will create a website to reflect on your induction journey. This is your opportunity to share with the professional learning community what you can do!

- - - Your reflection should demonstrate your technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge.
    - The website you publish should reflect pride in the profession with the real-world purpose to inspire and support other new teachers.
    - You will be presenting your digital reflection website during Colloquium.
    - CTI will ask your permission to feature your website on our Center for Teacher Innovation website, future publications, and/or Twitter account.

Select a free website builder as a tool to capture your digital reflection. You can continue from your digital reflection website from Year 1 or create a new one.

Create 3 categories (pages/tabs) on your website and include the following:

1. Introduction

If you no longer have access from Year 1 from last year, please be sure to include the information below:

- Name
- Grade level
- Content
- Why do I teach? Include multimedia in a way that reflects your passion for and teaching philosophy. This multimedia response should be embedded or linked on the Introduction page of your website.

Tools can include but are not limited to the following:

- - Canva online graphic design tool.
  - Powtoons animated videos and presentations
  - Animoto photo and video slideshow
  - Piktochart easy infographics and presentations
  - Screencast-O-matic fast, free screen recording
  - Adobe Spark transform your ideas into stunning visual stories
  - iMovie or iMovie Trailer (for Mac) video presentations

2. Developing as a Professional Educator

Revisit your professional growth goal(s) and compare and contrast your Initial CSTP and your Final CSTP Self-Assessment results.

- Describe a professional goal you have for yourself beyond induction. Why have you identified this as a need or interest?
- What actions will you take? How will you measure goal attainment?
- What actions can you take to remain a connected educator throughout your career?
- What can you do personally and professionally, to sustain the energy it takes to be passionate about students, teaching, and learning? (Ideas from Edutopia)
- What advice do you have for new teachers entering the profession?

3. Contributing to the Profession

Throughout Induction, you have been provided Curated Resources with the intent to keep you informed of the newest and most relevant teaching strategies and web-based teaching tools available. Now, it’s your turn!

- On your website, create a tab/page that features at least 3 quality resources that any new teacher in your grade level and/or content should not be without.
- Include brief explanations of how you used them in your unique context.
- Featured resources should include those you are excited to continue using in the future and those that would contribute to the success of other new teachers and students.
- Featured resources can include lessons, activities, or other teaching resources you created, adapted, or found from another source. If you feature a resource that you did not create, be sure to cite your sources.
- The resources you choose to feature should support effective use of technology, pedagogy, and/or content.
- The goal of this task is for you to engage in being an active contributor to what’s great in the profession.
- Throughout your induction experience, you have refined areas of expertise; now share with the world!

How to create a website using Google Sites

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