Engage with Colleagues And Professionals in the Community
As a means to self improvement, I frequently engage in discussions and conversations with professionals in the community. I remain in regular contact with all of my past mentor teachers as they continue to offer invaluable adivce and resources to help me develop my professional self.
As a teacher it is imperative that I meet the teacher's code of conduct and I strive to ensure that these are met continuously throughout my practice. I constantly strive to improve and develop my professional knowledge and practice and therefore find myself constantly reflecting on my teaching practice in order to improve my methods and approaches to teaching. I believe in being a life-long learner, a skill in which I wish to impart upon my students. As a professional, I have attended a number of PD’s, most recently, an insightful all-day PD on Cued Articulation which I encountered during my recent placement in a Prep class which made me eager to learn more. The skills I was taught I will readily implement into my teaching and I know I will find them useful in the early years
As a teacher, I value the contribution of parents and carers in the community and will openly invite these members of the school community into my classroom. I remember when I was in Prep knowing that my Mum was coming into Prep R to help with our reader covers caused so much excitement I would nearly explode with happiness; to be able to involve parents in the learning process and the learning environment is a joy and it benefits the students (everyone likes to show off their mum or dad or gaurdian), the parent (enjoys being involved with their child's learning) and the teacher alike (provides additional support and also makes more time for other duties).
I feel that parents need to feel involved and at the very least welcomed into the classroom. While a call home to parents usually means their child is in a bit of strife, I feel it equally important to call home to also alert parents to some of the remarkably good things that their child may have acheived. I was lucky enough in my prep class that each morning most parents would come into the classroom to farewell their sons and daughters which granted a fanatastic opportunity for my mentor teacher to conference with any parent/carer who had any queries about their child, but also a good opportunity for me to speak to parents about child's progression throughout the term and speak of the wonderfully kind, hilariously funnny or incredibly caring acts that their child had untertaken while I was there. Speaking with the parents really helped build a sense of community for everyone involved, and it also helped me as a student teacher to really take responsibility for my students and feel both accepted and valued in the classroom. I took great pleasure in being sought out by parents to speak about their child and it gave me great confidence as a professional to feel that I was accepted as teacher to their students.
I am lucky enough to have many friends who have recently entered the profession who have graciously accepted my phone calls at 11pm at night when I couldn't think of a good game to play as an introduction to my lessons, and I too return their worried emails when they suddenly realise they don't know a thing about fractions to offer them my knowledge on the matter. Teachers that I have met and encountered along my journeys have all been incredibly wonderful and helpful and would do anything to help a fellow teacher out. I hope that I too one day am as experienced as my mentor teachers and can offer guidance to pre-service teachers like me.
As a teacher it is imperative that I meet the teacher's code of conduct and I strive to ensure that these are met continuously throughout my practice. I constantly strive to improve and develop my professional knowledge and practice and therefore find myself constantly reflecting on my teaching practice in order to improve my methods and approaches to teaching. I believe in being a life-long learner, a skill in which I wish to impart upon my students. As a professional, I have attended a number of PD’s, most recently, an insightful all-day PD on Cued Articulation which I encountered during my recent placement in a Prep class which made me eager to learn more. The skills I was taught I will readily implement into my teaching and I know I will find them useful in the early years
As a teacher, I value the contribution of parents and carers in the community and will openly invite these members of the school community into my classroom. I remember when I was in Prep knowing that my Mum was coming into Prep R to help with our reader covers caused so much excitement I would nearly explode with happiness; to be able to involve parents in the learning process and the learning environment is a joy and it benefits the students (everyone likes to show off their mum or dad or gaurdian), the parent (enjoys being involved with their child's learning) and the teacher alike (provides additional support and also makes more time for other duties).
I feel that parents need to feel involved and at the very least welcomed into the classroom. While a call home to parents usually means their child is in a bit of strife, I feel it equally important to call home to also alert parents to some of the remarkably good things that their child may have acheived. I was lucky enough in my prep class that each morning most parents would come into the classroom to farewell their sons and daughters which granted a fanatastic opportunity for my mentor teacher to conference with any parent/carer who had any queries about their child, but also a good opportunity for me to speak to parents about child's progression throughout the term and speak of the wonderfully kind, hilariously funnny or incredibly caring acts that their child had untertaken while I was there. Speaking with the parents really helped build a sense of community for everyone involved, and it also helped me as a student teacher to really take responsibility for my students and feel both accepted and valued in the classroom. I took great pleasure in being sought out by parents to speak about their child and it gave me great confidence as a professional to feel that I was accepted as teacher to their students.
I am lucky enough to have many friends who have recently entered the profession who have graciously accepted my phone calls at 11pm at night when I couldn't think of a good game to play as an introduction to my lessons, and I too return their worried emails when they suddenly realise they don't know a thing about fractions to offer them my knowledge on the matter. Teachers that I have met and encountered along my journeys have all been incredibly wonderful and helpful and would do anything to help a fellow teacher out. I hope that I too one day am as experienced as my mentor teachers and can offer guidance to pre-service teachers like me.