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** Standard 5 ** ** Teachers know how to manage a classroom. **  The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

Evidence 1: Mystery Blog

Rationale 1: As we began our mystery unit, I decided to have the students participate in a classroom blog where they would be given the opportunity to share their mystery stories, comment on others stories, and post questions based on their guided reading book. Through my graduate program, I became aware of the positive impact that technology has on motivating and enhancing student learning. During this unit, students were successfully engaged in communicating their stories and comments with their classmates. My role as a facilitator encouraged students to take control of their learning and allowed me to observe my students learning process.

KSD  The students were each given their own ‘page’ on the mystery blog that allowed them to have full responsibility of their learning.   5.S.1 The teacher creates a smoothly functioning learning community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another, participate in decision making, work collaboratively and independently, and engage in purposeful learning.  Although students were responsible for their own page, they also had to partake in commenting on their classmates’ stories.   5.S.2 The teacher engages students in individual and cooperative learning activities to develop motivation to achieve, by (for example) relating lessons to students’ personal interests, allowing students to have choices in their learning, and leading students to ask questions and pursue problems that are meaningful to them.  It can be difficult to have students share their writing or participate in book talks. The blog was a tool that motivated students to partake in both of those activities.   5.D.4 The teacher recognizes the value of intrinsic motivation to students’ life-long growth and learning.