Standard9

** Teachers are able to evaluate themselves. **  The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of his or her choices and actions on pupils, parents, professionals in the learning community and others and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally. **Evidence 1:** My final reflection paper from EDT 652 **Rationale 1:** This paper analyzed the literature in the area of techonolgy in education and then reflected on and evaluated the implications of the principles, partly in my own teaching and, to a greater degree, in the larger educational world. The paper demonstrates my ability to analyze the philosophical elements of teaching practice and synthesize those elements with the realities present in the practical teaching world. Part of the purpose of this assignment was to determine the place and efficacy of technology in education and to make projections about how technology will impact education in the future. Secondarily, then, the paper also required me, as an educator, to reflect on my responsibilities for technology use, given the professional literature and my own experiences and realities. 9 ** .D.1 The teacher values critical thinking and self-directed learning as habits of the mind. ** Reading over the literature and trying to contextualize it in terms of the realities in my own district truly involved a great deal of critical thinking. The professional literature often paints a fairly ideal and theoretical reality, when the practical world in many teachers’ classrooms falls somewhat short. Being an educator requires one to regularly seek out information on what are the best practices and then employ critical reflection on how one can bring those practices to life within the constraints present in his/her classroom. [[home|
 * Standard 9 **
 * KSD **
 * 9.K.2 The teacher understands critical frameworks for reflecting on teaching practice (e.g. frameworks for social, cultural, and philosophical foundations of education). **
 * 9.S.1 The teacher articulates and defends a philosophy of education to guide his/her practice and contributes to the stated philosophy of the school building/district. **

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