Standard 4: Teachers demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, reflection, and leadership
As I get closer to becoming a full-time educator I am becoming more and more aware of the importance of professionalism. As an educator I will be held to a high standard of behavior, ethical conduct, and leadership and I feel I am proficient and developing towards advanced in this area. I try daily to reflect on my experiences teaching and even when I feel like moving on from a situation I find it so important to genuinely reflect on what went well and what could have been better. I’ve found throughout my teaching experience that personal reflection combined with the feedback from my mentors or peers is the most influential aspect of my developing teaching practice. I feel that I also make an effort to assist my peers and model leadership by participating in class discussions only when I feel I have something to say that serves a meaningful purpose to the conversation and attending my peers lessons and giving them authentic feedback. I think one way I could improve on reflection and professionalism would be to not only internalize my reflections and feedback, but to make definite tangible efforts to revise my lesson plans as I receive said feedback.
The following link is to a lesson that I designed based on a teaching strategy from our book, Making Thinking Visible. I at first signed up to teach my peers how to use the “See, Think, Wonder” strategy, but I believed they would benefit more if I chose a more complex strategy. For this reason I chose to teach “Claim, Support, Question,” and I planned a lesson that would clearly present the steps to this method, how it could be applicable to my peer’s content areas, and gave them an example of how I would use it for teaching art. I feel that my effort to prepare a comprehensive and beneficial lesson for my peers demonstrates leadership and professionalism.
As I get closer to becoming a full-time educator I am becoming more and more aware of the importance of professionalism. As an educator I will be held to a high standard of behavior, ethical conduct, and leadership and I feel I am proficient and developing towards advanced in this area. I try daily to reflect on my experiences teaching and even when I feel like moving on from a situation I find it so important to genuinely reflect on what went well and what could have been better. I’ve found throughout my teaching experience that personal reflection combined with the feedback from my mentors or peers is the most influential aspect of my developing teaching practice. I feel that I also make an effort to assist my peers and model leadership by participating in class discussions only when I feel I have something to say that serves a meaningful purpose to the conversation and attending my peers lessons and giving them authentic feedback. I think one way I could improve on reflection and professionalism would be to not only internalize my reflections and feedback, but to make definite tangible efforts to revise my lesson plans as I receive said feedback.
The following link is to a lesson that I designed based on a teaching strategy from our book, Making Thinking Visible. I at first signed up to teach my peers how to use the “See, Think, Wonder” strategy, but I believed they would benefit more if I chose a more complex strategy. For this reason I chose to teach “Claim, Support, Question,” and I planned a lesson that would clearly present the steps to this method, how it could be applicable to my peer’s content areas, and gave them an example of how I would use it for teaching art. I feel that my effort to prepare a comprehensive and beneficial lesson for my peers demonstrates leadership and professionalism.
claim_support_question.pptx | |
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My professionalism as a developing educator can also be seen in the organization and comprehensiveness of my completed resume. With help from my peers and teachers I feel my resume is in a place where it accurately represents myself as a hirable educator without much fluff.
katielynnwalker_resume_2019.docx | |
File Size: | 131 kb |
File Type: | docx |