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
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.
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.
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.
Being a teacher is a profession that I always have adored and admired because teachers were like the second mothers that I interacted with for 180 days out of the year. When I was a little kid, while other kids were playing house and doctor, I was creating a classroom filled with my own ideas and concepts. I would create my own rules and expectations for the students (stuffed animals) that set foot in my classroom. As I grew older, I found myself teaching my peers information that they didn’t understand in elementary and middle school. Consequently, my love for the teaching profession began to steadily flourish as I progressed through school. Being in school was a defining moment of my life because teachers were guiding and providing me with the knowledge that I would need to succeed in the outside world. Although I despised public schooling and the boundaries I
The students must trust that the teacher has their best interest at heart. This trust will help build a positive relationship between student and teacher. This is important for giving the students a sense of purpose, as they will then be more motivated to succeed. This allows them to be more active in class activities and engage in discussion. Not only is trust important between teacher and student, but also between students. A student should not fear ridicule when providing their opinion or an answer. This is a teacher’s responsibility to establish a sense of community by allowing students to get to know each other and develop positive relationships throughout the entire classroom. Students must be made aware that it’s our differences that make us unique, but it’s our similarities that make us human. The classroom should be a place of acceptance, where every student’s well-being is
I feel that each student has the potential and ability to gain knowledge, though each may have a different learning style. It will be my job, as a teacher, to experiment, explore, and determine the correct technique for each individual. In order to achieve this goal, I will need to be aware of the student’s personality, academic level, and any risk factors that child may have. I will work to inspire, motivate, and instill the confidence needed for each child to reach his/her full potential.
My professional plans for the future are to immediately start teaching when I graduate college. However, on my own time I plan on expanding my education to the furthest extent I can in order to continue learning along with my students. Education lies within the strength of a single person, a teacher. The teacher who gets the strength to rise out of bed every morning and face a new day. A teacher has to hold their head up high when they walk into a classroom for fear that the slightest show of weakness may destroy them. To achieve this is the most important purpose in a teacher's life. A teacher is someone who is willing to teach students even when they crave to do other things with their time. An achievement in education lies solely within the goal of becoming greater, which I plan to strive to do.
When a teacher speaks about a student’s private matters publicly in front of other students it leads to the embarrassment of the student. The more embarrassed the student the less comfortable that student feels in the classroom. When a student is no longer comfortable in the classroom he is less likely to focus in on classwork work because he is more worried about how the other students are judging him. An example of this quality done badly is in the essay “Shame” by Dick Gregory, when the teacher spoke in front of a classroom of students about him claiming to have a father. She said, “We know you don’t have a daddy.” Even though Richard Gregory not having a father in his family was common knowledge amongst the classroom, it should not have been said as openly. Had she spoke to him privately about knowing that he doesn’t have a father and therefore could not give to the Community Chest he wouldn’t have felt as embarrassed and walked out of the classroom. An example of this quality done properly is from a personal experience. In eighth grade, I had a math teacher who didn’t tolerate students doing anything that was disruptive to everyone’s learning. One day we were learning a difficult algebra problem and this student decided to purposely yell out the wrong answers and because I was sitting next to him and was getting the answers right he started calling me a nerd and a geek. The teacher eventually stepped outside of the classroom and into the hallway with the student to speak to privately to him. A few minutes later the teacher came back into the classroom and the student quietly sat back done in his seat. Class soon resumed and the student remained quiet for the rest of the class. Because the teacher spoke to the student privately it prevented the students from knowing something personal about that student
Professionalism is a very important concept in this modern day. Because healthcare is always advancing, professionalism is very dynamic. However, some of the core values never change. As a student in doctorate of physical therapy (DPT) program, the student should have an understanding of accountability, altruism, and commitment.
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-reflections. The teacher, as a role model, must demonstrate a love for learning by continuing to grow and develop. The students will learn to be life-long learners when their teacher demonstrates the same skill.
Until the twentieth century, teachers had very little preparation and training to becoming an educator. Teacher training typically involved one to two years at a teacher’s college before being employed at a local school, where teachers had to follow strict rules and regulations- even outside of the school. However, teachers have recently been working hard towards being professionals in their fields and they have earned the right to be judged on their success at work, rather than their behavior outside of the school. For the greater good of society, teachers have been striving to reach a full professional status.
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.
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.