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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: Action Research Reflection -

Rationale: Part of my action research project required me to reflect on my results by looking at the strengths and weakness of my research. I found that using a wiki to publish student work increase both students motivation and performance. This reflection process helped my students by me continuing the practice of publishing work to their wiki. They are motivated by sharing with their peers and have an opportunity to read some of great writing examples of their classmates. I have always been in the practice of mentally reflecting on activities and lessons, but never had to write my reflections down. I feel the act of writing my reflections made me have to think of the process in a more methodical way and may have in turn created a deeper reflection.

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 project research allowed me to reflect on student progress and motivation through the use of data. This data showed trends that helped me reflect on the activities and their effectiveness

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.

For this research, I enlisted the help of a colleague to set up the most user friendly way for students to access their class wiki. Also, I questioned our technology representative about safety and priviay rules of posting student work on the internet.

9.D.3 The teacher is willing to give and receive help.

I shared my student work wiki as well as my study results with my fellow colleagues. Many of them are planning on creating student wikis next year.