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** 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:** Clicker Training at District Inservice

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. My district is encouraging teachers to use clickers as a method to informally assess student learning. Clickers are being used at local colleges and my district wants our students and teachers to have experience using clickers for data-driven assessments. 10.S.2 The teacher makes links with the learners’ other environments on behalf of students, by consulting with parents, counselors, teachers of other classes and activities within the schools, and professionals in other community agencies. Teaching this inservice required me to consult with other teachers within my school, as well as collaborate with the Technology Director. I made myself available to help other teachers as needed in order to assist them with using the clickers. 10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students. I worked with my colleagues to encourage them to use clickers in their classrooms as a fast, informal way to assess student learning.
 * Rationale 1:** I chose this evidence because it demonstrates that I am able to work with my colleagues. For my district’s inservice day, I was asked by my school’s Differentiation Coach to lead a sectional about how to set-up and use clickers in the classroom. I had been fortunate enough to work with my district’s Technology Director to learn how to use the clickers myself and my principal wanted more staff members to know how to use this technology for formative, data-driven assessments in the classroom. About 20 staff members signed up to attend my clicker training sessions. I made folders with hand-outs for each person that attended. I worked with the Technology Director in advance and she made sure that class databases were created in advance so the people that attended the training already had their class lists set up in the computer. On Inservice day, I worked with my colleagues and showed them how to create databases for the CPS software using the class lists that the Technology Director previously set-up. I then taught them how to export the databases in the the CPS software and use them to do formative assessments. I shared two assessments that I made and used in my science and English classes.