Standard #10: Leadership and Collaboration
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession.
Rationale: This showed leadership as I described my relationship with their student, and what successes and challenges their student has had in my classroom, under my instruction. I answered any questions or concerns that the parents may have had.
• Discussion with co-op
Rationale: This showed collaboration in that I continuously asked my cooperative teacher for insight concerning our students, their likes/dislikes, and their home lives. We also talked in depth about different ways to teach different subjects and what would work best for our students.
• Professional development- teacher collaboration
Rationale: I showed leadership and collaboration here as I took part in a group demonstration and openly shared my theories and opinions. I worked with my group, took notes, and participated in the Leadership Committee.
• Co-teaching
Rationale: A fellow student and myself worked together to bring two different disciplines together. Though we were both Social Science majors, I brought my Psychology knowledge and he brought his history knowledge together and created a two week unit entitled "The Psychology of World War II". We worked together to make sure that both content areas were represented evenly.
• “Share, steal, borrow” with other teachers
Rationale: I have become active on many lesson-sharing websites, such as teacherspayteachers.com. On sites like these, we can download different lessons and materials to use in our own classrooms, as well as make our own original materials available for other teachers to use. I have also begun to "follow" a multitude of education professionals on Twitter. They are a great resource for different articles and ideas!