Standard+6

** Teachers communicate well. **  The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.
 * Standard 6 **

Evidence 1: Creation of Online Class Rationale 1: This evidence was an assignment for the course Teaching and Learning Online EDT 672. The assignment was to create an online class for the students we currently teach. I teach 4 year old kindergarten, so the course was a hybrid course for parents to use at home as a supplementary activity for what we are doing in the classroom for language/literacy, because the children cannot do the activities alone. The online class allows parents to go check what we did in the area of language and literacy, and activities they can do at home to support what we are doing at school. In order to make the online course successful, I had to communicate with parents exactly what we were doing in school and why it is important for their child’s success in language and literacy. I plan to use the online class, but I am working on getting the course online so parents can access it. It is ready to go; I just need to find a website that I can use to implement it. I learned a lot about communication with this assignment. I learned how to make information relevant and important. I learned how to organize information for parents so that it is understandable and user-friendly.

KSD

6.K.4 The teacher recognizes the importance of nonverbal, verbal and media communication techniques. // The information on the online class has a variety of communication techniques for parents and students. The communication used includes written communication, online games, and media to help parents and students in the area of literacy and language. //

6.S.3 The teacher knows how to ask questions and stimulate discussion for particular purposes (e.g. probing for learning understanding, helping students articulate their ideas and thinking processes, promoting risk-taking and problem solving, facilitating factual recall, encouraging convergent and divergent thinking, stimulating curiosity, helping students to question). // This evidence includes an online parent discussion area. Discussion questions are asked by me to get parents sharing the thinking about how to use language and literacy at home with their child. //

6.D.2 The teacher values many ways in which people seek to communicate and encourages many modes of communication in the classroom. // Parents are always free to come into school and communicate with me, but this allows parents to communicate with me through an online discussion and communicate with other parents in a different way. //