When I hear the word Professional Teacher, I immediately think back to all my teachers that helped me succeed and graduate high school. To me a professional teacher is to be able to teach the children how to be respectful to others, teach them how important it is for them to always be honest, and most importantly to keep in mind that I am their role model. A person whom they will look up to for the entire year. For this specially reason I will strive my hardest to be a very professional teacher.
I as a teacher I will gain the trust of my students and parents since the very first day of school. I will demonstrate a great impression of myself on the very first day that the students and parents come into my classroom. This will have a lot to
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I will never single out a student front of his/her friends by asking him something that he doesn’t know how to do. If they need help on something specific I will sit with them and help them succeed. I had something like this happen to me when I was little. I was a bilingual student and didn’t know how to read very well in English. One time when the teacher called out my name to read out loud I started to read and would say words incorrectly. All of my class mates started laughing at me and started saying that I didn’t know how to read. After that I shut down and never wanted to read out lout to anyone anymore. It was until I was in middle school that my reading teacher helped me out a lot and helped me overcome my fear of reading in front of everyone. A professional teacher will use student’s personal information to help the student out. I will not relies any confidential information that is shared with me to anyone at any given time. A sting thing that I believe is to keep the parents involved in their child’s school work. I will always communicate with the parents to let them know how their child is doing and if they need any help from me I will assist them as
keep my students safe. My classroom will be based on trust, not fear. I expect my students to
One of the first steps in of professionalism is dress; I make sure I am always dressed both professionally and comfortably for our classroom setting. For example if I know we are going to the Playscape, I wear either closed toed tennis or water shoes so I can get down and dirty and interacting with the children, really exploring the landscape. If I am wearing a dress I am conscious of how I sit or even go at step further and wear leggings underneath just so I don’t have to be worried. Another aspect of professionalism in the classroom is language. I always use appropriate language when speaking to the children, parents and my coworkers. Confidentiality is also a part of professionalism. Whenever I am taking notes or speaking of a child I am sure to keep it a confidential, I do not use names and am sure to only keep the information between the teaching team and I.
The occupations that I have chosen to analyze using the three elements for this assignment are paraprofessional, what I am currently, and a teacher, what I am going to college to become. Teachers and paraprofessionals work side by side, collaborate, plan, and share many of the same experiences. However, paraprofessionals are often not treated as equals and has created some ethical judgement regarding treatment of the paraprofessionals from other teachers and administrators in the business of education. I want to use this assignment as an opportunity to distinguish the true professional using the elements designed for this course.
When it is coming to define the term of “Professionalism” it has specific needs of every discipline. Hence, most of these definitions agreed that professional demonstrates behavior that show the knowledge and the skills of the profession. Regardless the lack of a professionalism definition, it is a consistent in the prose that are expected to have specific knowledge which they can utilize to make judgements, specialized training, characters that are unique in the field and the standards that are answerable. Though, teacher professionalism responsibilities it is important to everyone.
I am an African American female who attends the University of Chicago Charter School, which is located on the South side of Chicago. I am seventeen years old and I live and attend school in a predominantly Black neighborhood. I have seen plenty in my seventeen years of living. My goal is to go to college and become a teacher, so that I can return to Chicago and help the people in my community. In six years, I will be giving back to the community and helping the world become better place. I will help teach kids not to live in stereotypes and let them bring them down.
Teacher tenure is a commonly argued topic among all secondary schools across the United States. It is thought of as a program that protects teachers’ intellectual freedom or human rights, so that he or she will not be fired after a certain amount of years in a particular school system, without a just case involved. It is a common concern in today’s time because some teachers abuse the loopholes that tenure has to offer and it is seen as a barrier to the well being of the students and society as a whole. This issue is simple to resolve, as the time period of tenure should be longer. Teacher tenure should be under constant revisions and a solution should be proposed in order to solve the problems tenure creates such as, creating complacency among teachers, making it difficult to remove unsatisfactory teachers from the work force, and requiring schools to make long-term spending commitments due to the majority of those who abuse the union laws of tenure in secondary school systems.
I agree that content area teachers should be responsible for teaching skills students need in order to use subjects’ texts. These teachers are prepared and know how to use their content area texts. They have the necessary skills to teach the students how to learn and apply the information they learn. For example, content area texts have comprehension aids, charts, graphs, diagrams, pictures, summaries that relate directly to the topic. Along with these aids, content area teachers use strategies that help organize relevant information and they help students how to elaborate and apply that information.
Additional expected qualities that create the essentials of professionalism in relation to teaching are a high level of cognitive skills and social capabilities together with experienced personal qualities as stated by Marsh (2008) which include sensitivity, compassion, reflective and innovative thinking and commitment and dedication to the job. This support to facilitate such desired moral qualities as respect, caring, integrity, diligence and open communication as outlined by Groundwater-Smith (2009), the relationship of which is reinforced by Whitton (2009 p.47) in defining professionalism in teaching as being “…dependant of correct standards with the right conduct or practice”.
In my first years of teaching I plan to get a better understanding of my school community and the surrounding community, so I know where and how to get support for my students. I plan on attending trainings to keep up with the various concepts and principles that I will have to follow when teaching. I will also need to develop deeper understandings of adolescent development which will help when I am teaching to see changes in behavior and understanding and how it relates to each individual student. As a long term goal I will build relationships with fellow teachers to provide them support and learn together to become a team of advocates for our students. I know that it is up to me to grow and continue learning all that I can to provide my students the best learning experience possible.
Many people on this earth grow up saying they would like to make a difference in this world. However, half of those people do not feel like putting in the work in order to do so. As an elementary education major, making a difference is one of the main goals. There are many benefits of becoming a teacher, and students benefit as well. In order to have many students successfully graduate from one grade to the next a teacher should be willing to put in as much work that is needed. Elementary school is where children are set up for the rest of their education. It is important to understand how to go into this career field, becoming a teacher has its own benefits, and the children are able to benefit from teachers.
... Professional development is a component of being a highly effective teacher. Danielson and Garmston expressed the need for teachers to continue to learn new skills, show professionalism, and complete self-reflection. The teacher, as a role model, must demonstrate a love for learning by continuing to grow and develop. Students will learn to be life-long learners when their teacher demonstrates the same skill.
Professional development deeps teachers understand of new teaching strategies or helps reinforce current teaching strategies. This is a time for teachers to grow as educators so they can help their students become more successful. When professional development is implemented correctly it can leave teacher feeling confident in their ability to implement new teaching techniques or it can leave teachers discourage and confused. Linda Darling-Hammond’s article discusses several different studies in professional development. These studies concluded that professional development that is given over several hours and throughout several months is more successful that professional development that is only given in a few hours and over a couple of days.
The teacher that I observed was Mrs. Cynthia Carney. She is the kindergarten teacher at Greystone Elementary school. As my first time in the classroom, I tried to observe as much as possible. I had a great first impression of the classroom, it is a very positive environment, and the teacher has definitely established a clear routine and rules that the students follow. The teacher did a very brief (5-10 minute) science lesson/introduction to the unit on weather. Although the teacher did not inform my partner and I about the exact objectives for the lesson, it was clear that she wanted the students to learn about making observations about weather. Her objective
One good quality a teacher should have is, respect for the students. Each person’s ideas and opinions should be valued and not judged. They should be able to express themselves without feeling insecure. Another good quality is, having high expectations for your students. Each student should be encouraged to do their best and achieve goals that they may have never met before. Another good quality is, I believe a teacher should have is good communication skills. They should keep not only the students informed on what is going on in the class, they should definitely keep the parents informed as well. Teachers need to know how to communicate with all their students because some are at different levels than others.
First, I realized that, teachers carry a lot of weight on their shoulders and have great responsibilities. They have to balance the curriculum, students, parents, lesson plans, common core, and upper management and still maintain a professional demeanor. Second, educators must follow a strong code of ethics. They must be professional at all times with students and colleagues, keep confidentiality, not have or show any prejudice or bias, maintain safe and positive learning environments, help students with problems, and hand out disciplines accordingly. Lastly, I found that when you’re a teacher, your education never stops. Teachers are always trying to improve their own education and professional growth, both for the benefit of their students and for the benefit of themselves.