Standard 9: Reflection and Professional Development
Summary
A teacher knows self-evaluation and reflection is crucial for professional development. Our choices, actions, and practices reflect on the community and the students that we are involved with. It is our responsibility to remain professional at all times and in any environment. It is also our responsibility to maintain licensure, to work cordially with others, to continue to develop our knowledge, to modify when we need to, and to understand that improving our teaching is a continuous cycle.
Common Artifact –STEM Philosophy Paper
This artifact allows for me to lean back and stretch forward on my teaching practices, experiences with students, and our my professional development. The STEM Philosophy Paper is a perfect example of how I am constantly revising, adding to, and modifying my professional development. When I first attempted to write my paper, sections lacked, and I did not know what the majority of it meant. As my first semester progressed, I began to make connections, and at the beginning of my second semester, I was given the opportunity to revise, edit, and add to my statement.
Summary
A teacher knows self-evaluation and reflection is crucial for professional development. Our choices, actions, and practices reflect on the community and the students that we are involved with. It is our responsibility to remain professional at all times and in any environment. It is also our responsibility to maintain licensure, to work cordially with others, to continue to develop our knowledge, to modify when we need to, and to understand that improving our teaching is a continuous cycle.
Common Artifact –STEM Philosophy Paper
This artifact allows for me to lean back and stretch forward on my teaching practices, experiences with students, and our my professional development. The STEM Philosophy Paper is a perfect example of how I am constantly revising, adding to, and modifying my professional development. When I first attempted to write my paper, sections lacked, and I did not know what the majority of it meant. As my first semester progressed, I began to make connections, and at the beginning of my second semester, I was given the opportunity to revise, edit, and add to my statement.
Other Artifacts
· Child Profile Assignment
· Minnesota Education Conference
· Diverse Council Seminar
· Action 100 training
· RAMPS conference
· Videos that have been viewed and critiqued
· SMART goals
· Clinical Practice Reflection
· Teaching Philosophy Statement
· TPA
· Student teaching critiques
· Child Profile Assignment
· Minnesota Education Conference
· Diverse Council Seminar
· Action 100 training
· RAMPS conference
· Videos that have been viewed and critiqued
· SMART goals
· Clinical Practice Reflection
· Teaching Philosophy Statement
· TPA
· Student teaching critiques
How Have I Maintained My Passion for Teaching and My Professional Development?
For the past two years, I have had the most wonderful and humbling chance to be a nanny. The first year, post graduate school, I was able to travel abroad to three different countries and nanny for my sister who had just had twins and worked full-time. The second year, as I made a move to Utah, I traveled again and nannied for two twin boys and a little girl. Both of these positions challenged me in different ways and helped me see, even more, the importance of good teachers in the lives of every child.
I pushed myself and continued my professional development as an educator by reading books, taking free online teaching courses through EdX, and writing goals for myself. I made yearly schedules for the children I tended to and planned mini lessons revolving around art, music, reading, science, writing, technology, geography, history, and more. Besides work, I teach voice lessons in the evenings and enjoy researching ways to better help those students achieve their goals.
To me, learning is an adventure; one that never ends. I enjoy pushing myself, exploring the unknown, researching, being curious and creative, and challenging those I teach to do the same.
For the past two years, I have had the most wonderful and humbling chance to be a nanny. The first year, post graduate school, I was able to travel abroad to three different countries and nanny for my sister who had just had twins and worked full-time. The second year, as I made a move to Utah, I traveled again and nannied for two twin boys and a little girl. Both of these positions challenged me in different ways and helped me see, even more, the importance of good teachers in the lives of every child.
I pushed myself and continued my professional development as an educator by reading books, taking free online teaching courses through EdX, and writing goals for myself. I made yearly schedules for the children I tended to and planned mini lessons revolving around art, music, reading, science, writing, technology, geography, history, and more. Besides work, I teach voice lessons in the evenings and enjoy researching ways to better help those students achieve their goals.
To me, learning is an adventure; one that never ends. I enjoy pushing myself, exploring the unknown, researching, being curious and creative, and challenging those I teach to do the same.