Standard10

Home     Standard1 / Standard2 / Standard3 / Standard4 / Standard5 / Standard6 / Standard7 / Standard8 / Standard9 / Standard10 **Standard 10** ** Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community. ** The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.

 Evidence 1: Skype Educator Network

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 Rationale 1:

 I have been fortunate enough to connect with the Skype Educator Network, which has just recently been released from its Beta version. Using this network I have connected to 29 teachers in other countries who are there to share lessons with us. There are teachers from Singapore, Denmark, Russia and New Zealand who have shared blogs, wikis and other means of communication with me. These teachers also all have Twitter accounts, so I follow them there as well as other teachers in my PLN.

 KSD

10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works.

There have been many opportunities where I have learned something from one of my Skype Educators only to share it with other teachers at a staff inservice. Often times there are progressive videos or sample projects that I can show to other staff members.

10.S.6 The teacher acts as an advocate for students.

I am not only an advocate for my students (asking teachers to comment on their great work), but I am an advocate for students abroad as well. Our class will often comment on other students blog posts and have even been able to set up Skype sessions with one another. Knowing that they have a global audience often makes students more conscious of doing their best work.

10.D.4 The teacher respects the privacy of students and confidentiality of information.

 With all work online we have always had media release forms and NEVER use last names. First names or student numbers are always used when sharing work online. I also refrain from using student names when sharing work with colleagues. I rarely see other teachers use last names as well.