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Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:
 * 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership**
 * a**. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning
 * b**. exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others
 * c**. evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning
 * d**. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community


 * 1**. As a CFF teacher, I am trying to use all the available resources for technology integration. I rely on my CFF coach for software and hardware questions, but he has also helped with implementation ideas and has observed me in order to offer tips on better practices. Through our department's fundraiser, I requested extra tools for the Promethean Board, and we are now using ActivVotes in my classes. I belong to diigo and delicious groups, through which I have access to peer-reviewed online sources. I've attended Moodle training, Technology Collaboration Day, and Promethean training. I am involved with helping our department put all of our common assessments online, so that students take the assessment online, and the data is immediately available online. I have two improvements I would like to make to my role in technology use at Littlestown and in education. At the Moodle training I attended, there was a "Sharing" time, when teachers were able to get up and show off what they had done with their Moodles. I learned a lot that day about how real teachers are using these tools. I would like to develop some significant piece of work, whether it is a Moodle, blog or wiki, etc., that I could show to colleagues and have them experience the same feeling. I would like to be a teacher that shows others that these tools have real value. My second improvement will be to better understand the direction of our school district. I came into Littlestown four weeks into the school year, and I know I missed the beginning-of-the-year trainings. But I do not know of a district technology plan, either published or approved by the school board. I would like to be active in creating an expectation for technology use in the district.


 * 2**. To continue to engage in professional growth and leadership, I will rely on professional resources and I will reflect on my educational practices. I will continue to attend professional development days offered by the school district, the LIU and others. I will maintain connections I've developed with other teachers committed to 21st Century Skills. In my graduate courses, I will take advantage of opportunities to find and share digital tools. I will share my diigo and delicious accounts with teachers who are willing to work with technology in education.

**Summary Statement for Strategy 5** I will develop and use a course website that could be shown as a simple model to other teachers. I will continue to participate in opportunities the district offers to grow in technology use and share my experiences with colleagues and administration.