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**Standard 9** ** 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:** Online Teaching Journal

I kept a weekly journal while creating my unit for the online teaching course. This journal consists of struggles and triumphs that I had while building my unit. It also reflects on my thoughts about online teaching, the pieces that need to be included, and the affects I believe it has on students’ learning. I also used the journal to reflect on some of the resources I used and what they would be good for while developing my unit.
 * Rationale 1:**


 * KSD**
 * 9.K.1 The teacher understands methods of inquiry that provide him/her with a variety of self-assessment and problem-solving strategies for reflecting on his/her practice, its influences on students’ growth and learning, and the complex interactions between them.**

My weekly journals helped me to really reflect on how my online unit would affect the students. They really made me contemplate what to include to better benefit the students’ learning. Due to my weekly reflections on what my plan was and my progress, I was able to add items that I thought would help the students better understand Microsoft Excel and remove items that were more “fluff” and wouldn’t be the best to help the students to grow.


 * 9.S.4 The teacher draws upon professional colleagues within the school and other professional areas as supports for reflection, problem-solving and new ideas, actively sharing experiences and seeking and giving feedback.**

I used conversations and feedback from my instructor via Moodle regarding my journal entries to become more successful in building an online course. I also used my instructor’s support and feedback to continue writing journal responses on a weekly basis.


 * 9.D.2 The teacher is committed to reflection, assessment, and learning as an ongoing process.**

I wrote weekly journal entries while building my online course. The entries included my reflections on my progress each week including my struggles and successes I had while creating the course.