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Teaching Portfolio Rationales

Part I: Describe a teaching artifact that represents the overall HTSB Standard
HTSB Overall Standard
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.
Teaching Artifact
WASC Team

Course
Teaching Artifact Description

295A

Each of the teachers is assigned to a specific

team for our self-study for the WASC accreditation
visit. At least once per month we met and wrote
and edited our portion of the self-study.
Teaching Artifact Results
As a group, we constructed and edited our portion of the WASC
self-study. During the visit, we met with the team to discuss our
section. Overall, our accreditation visit went really well. We were
re-approved for our accreditation.
Part II: Connect the teaching artifact to sub-standard and assess your proficiency
Sub Standard

Candidate Collaborates with

School - Does Candidate participate in
school-wide efforts to implement a shared
vision and contributes to a supportive culture?

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(10.2)
Connection to Artifact

Being new to the school, it was great to service on the various

teams. I was able to learn more about Kauai High Schools goals
and mission. This allowed me to help instill these ideals in the
students.

Self-Assessment
4-Candidate ALWAYS does this as a teacher.
3-Candidate MOSTLY does this as a teacher
2-Candidate SOMETIMES does this as a teacher
1-Candidate RARELY/NEVER does this as a teacher
NA-Candidate did not have the opportunity to do this
Evidence of Self-Assessment

I have seen the benefits of using collaboration. It helps to be a

part of the teams at the school. I was able to get to know my
colleagues. They were very helpful in getting me up to speed on
the schools vision and mission.
Part III: Improve your proficiency for the HTSB Standard
Sub Standard to Improve
Candidate Collaborates with Families and
Community - Does Candidate elicit information about
learners and their experiences from families and
communities and use this ongoing communication to
support learner development and growth? (10.3)
What to Improve?
Research at least 2 resources
on how to improve
proficiency.

As I gain more experience in teaching, I will have more time to

work with the other departments and community members to get
more involvement.
The goal of the data teams are to work on formative assessments
to improve student learning outcomes. We look at what the
students know and what they need to know. The data teams are a
part of the requirements for Hawaii DOE schools.
Hawaiipublicschools.org
This article stated there are better student outcomes when teachers
collaborate. Several reasons for this include the teachers building
better relationships with each other and shared responsibilities.
Without collaboration, teaching can be a very isolating

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Implementation of Findings

experience.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2014/07/18/powerof-teacher-collaboration-nea/
Being involved with other departments and the community will
help strengthen my teaching.