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 * Standard 5**

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. 
 * Teachers know how to manage a classroom. **
 * Evidence 1: ** [[file:Action Research - Discussion Board Warm Ups.doc]]


 * Rationale 1: ** For my Action Research project, I integrated digital warm up activities in my Information Processing course (grades 9-12) for the purpose of motivating the students at the start of each class, allowing them to get to know each other better, teaching them new communication technologies, and to build a better sense of community within the classroom.

The students had a very positive response to the new warm ups and actually requested that we continue to warm up using discussion boards for the remainder of the course. Personally, it was fun to have an interactive start to each class instead of the traditional warm up of keying lines from a text book. I believe participating in these warm ups helped the students feel comfortable in the classroom and also helped improve their digital citizenship.


 * KSD:

Knowledge: **5.K.4 The teacher understands the principles of effective classroom management and can use a range of strategies to promote routines and positive relationships, cooperation, and purposeful learning in the classroom.

 Weekly discussion board warm ups have now become a routine in the classroom which students really enjoy. They get to learn more about each other and communicate with one another which in turn developes a community within the classroom.

**Skills: **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.

 Most of the discussion board questions revolve around personal information such as what they will be doing over the holiday break, while some of the questions pose topics for deeper thinking such as how will you use electronic communication in the workplace?

**Dispositions: **5.D.3 The teacher values the role of students in promoting each other’s learning and recognizes the importance of peer relationships in establishing a climate for learning.

Students were required not only to answer the original discussion question, which I posted, but also needed to post a minimum of two comments on their classmates responses to generate a conversation.

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