1. 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.
This basically is the teacher becoming an active role in the student’s lives as well as well as interacting
with other colleagues. They interact with the parents and become engaged in their student’s lives. The
teachers also become an active role in their community. They have an understanding of the importance
of the children’s family involvement and that being a teacher means they have to be a leader in the
classroom as well as the community.
The teacher could have their students come up with things they can do to help the community. Whether
it is big or small, something they think they could do.
The teacher could teach the students the importance of communication with their classmates by putting
them into groups and having them figure out a puzzle. You would blind fold two of the members and
one would have to tell them what to do.
For a younger class you could really emphasize the importance of sharing and being nice to people. You
could give them only a few of the tools that they need to do an assignment and have them share with
the classmates.