Standard 10
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth and to advance the profession.
This shines a light upon the necessity of professional development through collaboration and leadership in regards to classroom, grade-level, school, and perhaps even district events, discourse, and developments.
The evidence below reveals how I have been able to take a leadership role in my Student Teaching Placement, how I have been part in planning lessons between two countries' schools (in Japan and the U.S.) and how I have been able to interact with teachers within my UH Cohort, the Waipahu Complex, and the Online Teaching Community.
 During a Summer class through the MEdT program, I was able to plan a group lesson with my UH peers in Collaboration with schools in Kyoto and Miyagi, Japan |
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 This is my teacher desk (at the beginning of the year) for my student teaching experience and eventually my OJT experience as well! |
 This is one of the many weekly plans I had to create over the course of my Student Teaching semester. I always try to make each week's lessons flow into the next as smoothly as possible. |
 This was a picture I took during the Waipahu Complex PD at the beginning of the school year. During this PD I was able to discuss plans for the upcoming school year with many different teachers within the Complex area. |
 It is always enjoyable and academically profitable to learn with (and from) the many members of my MEdT Cohort! |
Reflection
The teacher is a leader in their own classroom, but that alone is not enough. A teacher needs to continue looking for opportunities to share their own learning with others and to gather more resources to improve their own instruction. Some examples of this include leading and designing field trips, applying for grants, and collaborating with other teachers in the teacher's local community and otherwise. In addition, teachers need to continue to practice keeping track of their students' progress, monitoring individual growths, and ensuring that you are up to date with all new research and teaching strategies.
I have been lucky enough to get an OJT position after my student teaching. I have been the sole teacher responsible for my students' learning for almost a whole quarter- planning lessons, assessing progress, and engaging their minds and hearts in learning. I have also given the wonderful opportunity to travel to Japan and collaborate with and observe other teachers and schools in Kyoto and Miyagi, Japan to see how I can improve my own teaching and to share my knowledge with them, as well. I have grown through these developmental opportunities to the point that I feel that I have leveled up as a teacher!