Standard 9: Collaborative Relationships: The teacher understands the role of the community in education and develops and maintains collaborative relationships with colleagues, parents/guardians, and the community to support student learning and well-being.

Date: Fall 2001
Artifact: Email Project with Community High School
Description: As a class project, I emailed a student from a high school in a neighboring community for over a month. In the emails between my student and myself, we discussed issues of the essence of math, adolescent problems and challenegs, and my students interests, dreams, and desires for the future.

Date: September 23, 2001
Artifact: Annotated Bibliography
Description: In a group, three classmates and I read 16 scholarly sources on several topics related to teaching, including technology and professional development. In addition my group put together an awards ceremony called the "Abby" awards, a small skit to illustrate the best information we had obtained from our research. Included are my four sources on the topic of technology in the classroom with a brief yet detailed summary of each article.


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