Standard+I

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
 * 1. **** Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity **
 * a. ** promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
 * b. ** engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
 * c. ** promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes
 * d. ** model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments

Include all that apply: instructional strategies such as differentiation, technology standards (NETS-S), state standards.
 * 1. List all that goes into planning for classroom instruction. **


 * **Objectives or learning outcomes you would hope for your students.**
 * **Differentiation for various types of learners**
 * **State standards, NETS standards**
 * **Collaborative learning plans for everyday experiences**
 * **Real world issues, authentic problems VALID, RELEVANT**
 * **Student reflections**
 * **Facilitate creativity, innovation, applaud creativity, promote awareness**
 * **Teach skills needed to survive in school and in life**
 * **Assessment of mastery**
 * **Procedures to accomplish learning**
 * **Materials needed/collected**
 * **Homework/ follow-up**
 * **Organizers to teach thinking skills**


 * 2. List the types of projects and activities you use with your students. **
 * **Rote/memory for math facts and spelling words**
 * **Graphic organizers and rubrics for writing assignments**
 * **Projects such as Posters, Research Assignments**
 * **Collaborative Group Work Assignments**
 * **Peer tutoring**
 * **Packets which include; word searches, acrostic poems, crosswords, word formation**
 * **ERT packets**
 * **Planting Oak Trees**
 * **Earth Clean up Day**
 * **Science incorporated into Guided Reading**
 * **Social Studies inbedded into Guided Reading**
 * **Junior Achievement for 6 weeks with Community Volunteer Teacher**
 * **Poet Laureate, Poetry Unit, Poetry Composition**
 * **Contests, National, State, Local, and School Wide**
 * **Read Alouds, Re-reads,**
 * **ARTY reading, comprehension tests**
 * **Success Maker**
 * **Plato**
 * **On-line Math Games sanctioned by "Baracuda"**
 * **DIBELS Strategic Reading Practice**
 * **Song Composition and performances**
 * **Story Composition, contests**
 * **Speck's Stellar Spellers, for enrichment of better spellers**
 * **Building Houses for Ralph Mouse**
 * **Collaborative Partners for Chapter books; VOCAB, Comprehension, chapter projects**
 * **Making of Body Puppets**
 * **Origami paper folding, boats, cars, birds**
 * **Sudoku, Math 24, Chess**
 * **Everyday Math Games**
 * **KWL charts for many new concepts**
 * **Quilt making**
 * **Mrs. Speck's Made-up Songs for Almost Everything to Familiar Tunes**
 * **Making music around the piano**


 * 2a. Do your planned projects and activities include any of the following: project-based learning, authentic activities, higher order thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, creativity and innovation, and use of digital tools and resources? List all that apply. Yes, they do. However, I do feel as though I could improve. **
 * **project-based learning**
 * **many authentic, hands-on activities and experiments**
 * **some higer-order thinking, but can always use more**
 * **a lot of creativity and innovation; individual; partner; and group**
 * **problem solving in science and math, could use more in other areas**
 * **I now know that digital tools will make my job easier and make it more interesting and fun for the students. We use the standard software in the computer lab.**

**3. List at least 3 ways that you can improve or would like to grow with regard to planning.**

4. List resources that can help you grow in this strategy. **
 * **I plan to use more digital tools, specifically many which were introduced to me in my Wilson Technology Class this spring. I feel as though it will expedite my efforts and make project planning more feasible and less time consuming. In other words, I hope to do more authentic projects by using digital tools.**
 * **I also plan to use more Internet resources and webcasts in my planning for next year. I already have a plan in place for the Poet Laureate to "Video Chat" into the classroom and have the students read poems they have composed to her. She will then give immediate feedback, praise, re-write instructions, etc.**
 * **Next year, I will begin using KUDs and will undoubtedly incorporate more of the LFS training in my thinking and my planning. This will naturally lend itself to the use of more authentic learning, projects, and higher order thinking planning which is one of the desired goals of Learning Focused Schools.**
 * **Finally, I will definitely have in place, a blog of some kind for my students and parents to communicate with me, keep everyone abreast of upcoming plans and events, and act as a classroom news resource.**
 * **I also plan to utilize the computer labs more frequently in the blocks of time allotted for Social Studies and Science. With the larger classroom sizes in our district next year (26) and fewer classes using the computer labs, I should be able to schedule my classroom more frequently. Presently, we go to the lab for two Success Maker visits in a six day cycle. These are required. With the number of classes using the lab and it being used for all of our Title I readers which use it for Read Naturally, there hasn't been enough extra time to sign up. I will be relentless, determined, and resolute to use more technology in my planning and teaching.**
 * **Two or more computers in my classroom.**
 * **More computer lab time.**
 * **Projector for the classroom.**
 * **Web cam for my computer.**
 * **Lap top for my planning and execution of plans.**
 * **Cell phone with Internet capabilities.**
 * **KUD's from LFS unit plans.**
 * **Administrative support for my plans.**
 * **Bloom's Taxonomy, revised.**


 * Summary Statement for Strategy 1

I will improve my lesson planning by incorporating more Higher-Order Thinking, using digital tools to assist with planning, and using technology in more of the activities and projects I plan. **

For step 3 above, write a summary statement. Include this statement on your Action Plan Summary page.