Standard #10: Leadership and Collaboration

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.
Name of Artifact: Language Newsletter
Date: March 2014
Course: EDUC 121: Child & Adolescent Development
Brief Description:
This creative newsletter was not one that was actually sent home with
students, but its information is important enough that it should be! Parents were the
target audience of this newsletter because it contains information about how
children acquire language and the important role that parents/guardians have in this
area of their childrens development. Inspirational quotes, family activity
suggestions, and intriguing facts all related to language were also added to this
newsletter.
Rationale:
To document my understanding of Leadership and Collaboration, I have
selected to include my Language Newsletter Assignment because it demonstrates
the ability to communicate in creative and effective ways with the families of
students. The skills used in the making of this newsletter can also be implemented
when writing letters that need to standout to colleagues and other school
professionals. It is common for teachers to be required to write weekly or monthly
newsletters for their students to take home to their families, so it is a form of
writing that is beneficial to master.