Standard 10: Reflection and Professional Growth: The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates how choices and actions affect students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community and actively seeks opportunities to grow professionally.

Date: Spring 2003
Artifact: Questioning For Mathematical Understanding
Description: Using action research as my model, I qualitatively studied the effects of waiting after student and teacher questions on student involvment and understanding.

Date: Spring 2003
Artifact: Rational Expressions Unit
Description: During my student teaching experience, I created a nine day lesson plan that focused on manipulating rational equations. Included in the plan is an example of a student quiz and rubric.

Date: November 27, 2001
Artifact: Student Profile
Description: For seven weeks in a junior high, I observed a student whose was different than myself. Through my observations and individual interviews with my student and my students teacher, I put together a paper analyzing his success in school and what factors effected his sucess.

Date: December 3, 2001
Artifact: Philosophy of Teaching
Description: During my first Curriculm and Instruction course, I put togetehr three reflection paper in an attempt to write out my beliefs and theories about effective teaching. My philosophy of teaching is a synthesis of these three reflections.


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