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Standard6 / Standard7 / Standard8 / Standard9 / Standard10  **  Standard 2  **Teachers know how children grow. The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development. Evidence 1: [|ToonDoo] Rationale 1: Toondoo.com is a website where students may design their own personal characters and use these characters in a comic strip type story. Toondoodle.com is used for students ages 14-18 in my Spanish 2 classes. I use this tool as a writing component in my course. Students use this site to create stories using the vocabulary, basic language structures, and verbs for each chapter. As a teacher, part of the process of learning a language is to be able to read and write it. As the students produce their own stories, they are able to share with one another. Because there are so many things that you can manipulate on this site, on top of coming up with your own avatars, the stories can grow. It also takes away many of the uneasiness when it comes to writing with a simple pen and paper. Students also are able to read and correct many of the common errors that occur in Spanish 2. KSD 2.K.1 The teacher understands how learning occurs -- how students construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop habits of mind – and how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning for a wide range of student abilities.  Using this site as a writing component in class puts a different twist to the most generic way of getting students to write.  2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks.  Students are able to use their prior stories and build a new one by using the new chapter vocablulary, grammar structures and verbs. They may add anything that they have learned in the past to develop their new stories. 2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence.  As I am able to reduce the anxieties of students in a written assignment, they then are able to look past their fears and move forward with the language.