Candidates manage their continued learning and professional development through continuous reflection about their teaching knowledge, dispositions, skills, and practices.

The candidate demonstrates effective problem solving skills utilizing current research, best practice, and performance-assessment data, using the latest available technology.

I demonstrate proficiency in managing continued learning and professional development through the implementation of action research in my classroom that utilizes current research, best practice, and performance-assessment data using the latest available technology. This was accomplished through extensive online research using various databases, and through analysis of data gathered through surveys, interpreted using tables and graphs in Microsoft Word. Palozzi and Spradlin (2006) assert that educational technology can streamline the recording of student achievement. Teachers also find that self-critique through the process of action research provides deeper awareness of their professional practice (Cochran-Smith and Lytle, 1993, as cited in Rogers, et al., 2007).

The action research project is one of the most challenging things I have done, but I gained valuable knowledge about the effect of cultural relevancy on student engagement. This encourages me to continue developing and implementing lessons that are more meaningful to students, and therefore more likely to result in true learning.

This exhibit was verified by Jim Multra, 8th Grade Humanities Instructor at Morrison Academy Kaohsiung.

As numerous statistics in the Action Research Report show, student learning increased as a result of the interaction model. Generally, the tables measure levels of student engagement, but the table specifically concerning use of the progressive tense in writing shows that all students were able to respond in the progressive tense, once there was a meaningful hook for them to respond to.