INTASC Standard 9—
Reflective Practice: Professional Growth
The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the
effects of his/her choices and actions on others (students, parents, and other
professionals in the learning community) and who actively seeks out
opportunities to grow professionally.
Belief
Statement: There
is always room for improvement in teaching. There is no perfect way to teach
but teachers must find ways to improve. Teachers must always reflect on the
effectiveness of their teaching and look at ways to improve. Every class is different
and will have different strengths and weaknesses and in order to help the next
class teachers must evaluate their effectiveness from semester to semester.
Teachers must also seek out opportunities to grow professionally, through
district and state training as well as seminars in their content area.
Artifact
1: PLC Meeting Notes
Reflection:
This artifact is a
possible outline for a Professional Learning Community (PLC) meeting dealing
primarily with using assessment data. I took these from a guest lecturer in my
Secondary Education 4210 class, Doug Snow from Logan City School District.
These charts and graphs will help me become a better teacher by showing the
evidence of growth of the students. When working in a PLC it is important to
first set curriculum standards within a PLCs in the same content. Once these
standards are established across the content, then teachers need to establish
assessments so that they can be compared with the other classes in the PLC data
meeting.
I have not
been in an actual PLC but I have practiced in my Sced 4210 class and I have
observed a PLC when I was doing clinical at Logan High School,. They did not
have a data meeting but instead gave support to each other and shared research
and discussed cheating in high schools. I will be involved in PLC’s in one form
or another wherever I teach and it is important to make SMART goals with these
PLC’s and use data to prove growth within each class.
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