Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities

Like doctors, lawyers, and engineers; teachers are educated professionals who must behave professionally. I know the importance of professionalism from my former career at a Fortune 500 company. I am always prompt to grade students work and provide written feedback. I also always input assignments into MISTAR so parents and students can be sure what is due or missing. Typically, I will communicate with students' parents via email, but if a student starts to struggle academically or misbehave in class, a phone call may be needed. During face to face meetings with parents, I refer to my MISTAR grade book to show how their child is doing, and identify any assignments they are missing. I will also go over the student's most recent test of the parents. Here is a paper about my experience at parent/teacher conferences while I was student teaching at Southgate Anderson High School.

As educators, we must encourage our students to be life-long learners, and we must live up to this standard ourselves. We need to reflect on our lessons and make a note about what we might do differently when we teach this lesson again in the future. We also need to collaborate and communicate with our colleges that teach the same courses. Finally, we must continue to develop professionally. In addition to attending the professional development seminars put on by my district, I am a member of the Detroit Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics and attended the DACTM/MDSTA conference in the Fall of 2018.