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**5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership**  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: **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. List ways in which you are involved in promoting technology and increasing your own professional growth and leadership. This could be through involvement in professional organizations, grade level groups, professional training you provide, professional learning communities, global communities you are involved in via the web such as nings, blogs, diigo groups, or other educator networks, a school network, district committee work, sharing with school leaders, etc. **


 * ======I have been a member of the NEA, HEA and Council for Exceptional Students since I started teaching four years ago. These organizations have provided me with resources, ideas and peer support over the years. I am currently enrolled in a technology class through Wilson College and am learning so much about technology. I have participated in two webinars this year and I am looking forward to linking onto more. These are traditionally free and provide excellent resources. I also belong to a diigo group made up of members from my technology class. ======

**1a. List at least 2 ways you can better improve your professional practice of modeling lifelong learning and leading the way for promoting and demonstrating effective use of digital tools and resources ** .

** 2. List resources that can help you grow in this area ** .
 * Our district is asking for staff to participate in the Classrooms of the Future program. I would like to join the next group starting in the fall of 2010. This will provide me with updated knowledge and new skills in the technology world. I would also like to organize a group of teachers or a on-line group that can share resources and ideas. I will model it much like we have been taught in out current graduate class. I would really like to promote after school training's and encourage teachers to use technology and to use the resources around them, just each others strengths and expertise.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The availability of mobile labs in the schools would help make after school sessions run smoother. For my personal classroom I would benefit from gaining digital cameras, an ipod, and a classroom computer. I do believe that collaboration time with peers and training's would be a tremendous bonus to our development and a much needed resource.


 * Write your response in 1a in the form of an action plan statement that you will then transfer to your action plan page.**
 * I will continue to review and subscribe to educational blogs to connect with other educators and collaborate using tools of the 21st century. I will complete the Classroom For the Future course that our district is offering staring in the Fall. I am going to continue to complete courses in the masters of education that I am in through Wilson college. I will also continue to connect with educators, administrators and other experts in the area of technology that I can turn to, to seek guidance. I am going to start creating pod-casts and posting them to the web of my enrichment labs.