Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

I have included the slide from my professional learning goals PowerPoint as my artifact to demonstrate my mastery of this standard.

This is a slide from my professional learning goals powerpoint for my internship classroom. For this, I was to use my strengths and weaknesses to create three learning goals to work on throughout the semester. The left column is my goals as a future teacher. The right column is a current update on how I have been working towards my professional learning goals. This artifact demonstrates my mastery of this standard by showing how I have set goals and have been learning from and improving while working towards each goal.

From this, I have learned how to set goals but I have also individually learned from working towards each goal I have set forth. The most learned for me has been in the first goal of using creative activities to help reinforce the mathematical content to students. For this goal, I have researched as well as collaborated with my mentor teacher on creative ways to engage the students. My most creative activity was using an example problem from the notes and calling on a random student. That student had to tell me the first step to the problem and walk me through it. That student then got to call on another student to explain the next step in the problem. This popcorn activity got the students engaged and focused because they did not know if they were going to be called on next.

Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning

I have included a screenshot of the home page of a KAHOOT! that I created for my students to play.

This KAHOOT is for simplifying complex fractions. We had two lessons in a row over the same material so I created a KAHOOT activity for the students for the second one. In this, the students were put in groups and worked with their groups to solve each of the four problems from the notes sheet. After each problem, there was a series of questions on KAHOOT for them to answer. This shows mastery of this standard by using technology to engage the students in learning. This also allowed them to collaborate with team members in order to simplify each complex fraction.

From this, I learned how to use technology to create engaging activities for students. I also learned how to use the technology the students have been given to appropriately engage them in the lesson. It is important for the students to be engaged and learning continuously while they learn. This also opened up the opportunity to check their understanding by using conceptual questions based from the notes.

Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world.

I have included a screenshot of the home page of a KAHOOT! that I created for my students to play.

This KAHOOT is for simplifying complex fractions. We had two lessons in a row over the same material so I created a KAHOOT activity for the students for the second one. In this, the students were put in groups and worked with their groups to solve each of the four problems from the notes sheet. After each problem, there was a series of questions on KAHOOT for them to answer. This shows mastery of this standard by using technology to engage the students in learning. This also allowed them to collaborate with team members in order to simplify each complex fraction.

From this, I learned how to use technology to create engaging activities for students. I also learned how to use the technology the students have been given to appropriately engage them in the lesson. It is important for the students to be engaged and learning continuously while they learn. This also opened up the opportunity to check their understanding by using conceptual questions based from the notes.

Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.

The artifact I have included is a screenshot of the Fundamental Advisory website. The Fundamental Advisory group sent an advisor to Stephenville ISD to train the teachers and faculty about cultural awareness and inclusion. From this, we collaborated with colleagues to discuss the different issues we have seen in the classroom and how we can help prevent said issues.

From this, I learned about the importance of equity and justice in the classroom. We want to make sure students have an equal opportunity to learn. Even if it means making special accommodations for another student to have that same opportunity. This is important because we need to make sure no student is left out because of something out of their control.

Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.

I have included this rubric for a project I created in a lesson plan when in my block II class for education.

This is a rubric I created for a project on a lesson plan I wrote in by block II education class. For this lesson plan, it was a universal design lesson. For this, I created a lesson over construction congruent angles, lines, and the similar. For this lesson, I created a project for the students to do to demonstrate their mastery of the objective. With this project, each group will be assigned a word or phrase from the lesson and they will have to create a poster with the word or phrase, what it means, and include a picture of the word or phrase. Having this project shows mastery of this standard by differentiating the types of assessments as well as giving a more hands-on learning for the different types of learners.

Throughout this lesson plan assignment, I learned about the different types of assessment methods as well as how to differentiate learning for all students. For example, instead of giving the students a test or a quiz, this project will allow me to see how much they have learned but it will be categorized under the same type of assessment.

Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.

I have included a screenshot of the student engagement portion of a lesson plan I did for adding and subtracting rational expressions. For this, each group was assigned a problem from the notes sheet that was picked up at the beginning of class. Each group had 10 minutes to work out the assigned problem and then had to present it to the class. This shows mastery of this standard because the students took ownership of their problem, learned how to solve it, and had to present it to the class for the class to learn.

From this, I have learned how to manage the classroom while letting them have a chance to take ownership of their learning. I learned how to create activities for the students while the students took ownership of their learning to learn the material.

Educators understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals.

I have included a screenshot of the home page of a KAHOOT! that I created for my students to play.

This KAHOOT is for simplifying complex fractions. We had two lessons in a row over the same material so I created a KAHOOT activity for the students for the second one. In this, the students were put in groups and worked with their groups to solve each of the four problems from the notes sheet. After each problem, there was a series of questions on KAHOOT for them to answer. This shows mastery of this standard by using technology to engage the students in learning. This also allowed them to collaborate with team members in order to simplify each complex fraction.

From this, I learned how to use technology to create engaging activities for students. I also learned how to use the technology the students have been given to appropriately engage them in the lesson. It is important for the students to be engaged and learning continuously while they learn. This also opened up the opportunity to check their understanding by using conceptual questions based from the notes.