Importance and Summary for Leadership and Collaboration:
InTASC Standard ten, Leadership and collaboration, focuses on teachers being role models for the students. Communication between students, families, and colleagues is also essential and covered in this standard. The artifacts below demonstrate my ability to demonstrate leadership and collaborate with other colleagues. By incorporating the community, using parent conference assignments, and working with colleagues, I am bettering myself to serve my students better.
Artifact #1: Using the Community
Working with the community helps to create meaningful learning experiences for the students. Numerous people in the community are willing to come and talk with the students. This would be beneficial to help introduce the students to a new unit or wrapping a unit up. Here is a picture of a science outreach volunteer who talked to our students about our new science unit matter. She had them do some interesting experiments and helped to get them into our new science unit.
Artifact #2: Parent-Teacher Conferences
Teachers can benefit from working with and communicating with parents because it allows them to be on the same page. Teachers and parents must have a good relationship because it will help them work together to ensure they are receiving everything they need to be welcoming. Teachers should communicate with parents to let them know how their child is doing academically and what they could do to help the child further. I will demonstrate my ability to hold an effective parent-teacher conference through this research-based PowerPoint (linked) and video (below).
Artifact #3: Working with Other Colleagues
By collaborating with colleagues, I am showing my ability to be a team player and share my ideas so that the whole grade could have a meaningful learning experience instead of just my class. For example, when my class completed our cross-curricular candy creations project, the other teachers who were hesitant at first decided that this looked fun and wanted to do it with their classes. I had shared the idea at our team meeting. Still, the other teachers weren’t as into the idea as I was, so by completing it with my class, the other two teachers heard and seen how much fun the students were having and how many opportunities they had to collaborate and work with money. Then they decided this was a good idea. Here is a picture of another teacher and I collaborating to create a meaningful learning experience for the students (right).