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**Standard 10** The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner. __**Evidence 1: **__ **Automotive Mechanical Contract Training (AMCT) website**
 * Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community.**

 In EDT 654 I developed a website to promote the contract training area within the automotive department at Fox Valley Technical College. I originally wanted to completely rebuild the webpage for the program that I teach, but after meeting with the manager of our web development area at the Technical College, I was convinced that this needed more attention. In an effort to support the College as a whole and the instructors within our contract training area, I built this page [].
 * __Rationale 1: __**

Spending my time to develop a page for another program other than my own gave me an opportunity to learn more about our contract training department and offered enhancements to my relationship with our web development area that would not have otherwise been there if I had only pursued my own interests. It has been through these relationships that I have been able to develop other aspects of the automotive programs at FVTC and ultimately enhance the learning experience of the students. For example; because of our close relationship, the contract training instructors have made it a priority to work with General Motors on delivering contract training to dealership technicians. And that professional relationship has brought the benefit of increased donations from GM to our GM ASEP and other Automotive Technology programs.

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10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works.

 A substantial part of the technical college system mission is to support the professional business community with on-going training for employees. Fox Valley Technical College is committed to this aspect of our mission and is the number one school in the Wisconsin Technical College System for contract training. We do twice as much contract training for business and industry than any other Wisconsin Technical College. This is why I chose to work on a web page for our contract training area when it was suggested to me. In addition to paying back relationship benefits, I understood the greater importance of our contract training area.

10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment.

 This collaborative type of a team environment lends itself well to cultivating growth within the department and entire division. This is evidenced by my willingness to work on a page for another area within the department and their reciprocity back by fostering a relationship with a client that has benefited the whole automotive department.

10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students.

 Not entirely by chance, we are forced to work with other departments at the College to complete projects. Because of the departmentalization within the College, we really don’t have a choice to consult with other professionals to make any changes outside of our own classrooms. I think there is some inherent wisdom to this type of organization. After all, who better to administrate the organization’s web site than professionals in web development? But regardless of whether we are required to work with others or not, it’s the willingness of people to sit down together and truly collaborate that makes organizations like Fox Valley Technical College great. In order to make a web page for another area in our department, I had to work with the instructors in that area to develop the content, and I worked extensively with the web development department to publish the page on the College’s site.

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