Reflecting on teaching is essential to the profession and growing as an educator. As a teacher we see through different types assessment to see how our lessons are effective or not. Sometimes we need to take a step back and reflect on what we liked about our lessons and what we did not. When we don't like something we can reteach it the next day with the adjustments you feel like you need to teach your students. 

I like to use exit tickets when identifying what the students learned that day. It is a good tool to track your student's daily progress to be able to scaffold for them to get towards the standards that align with their grade level. When having accurate records it is easy to differentiate for my students more frequently and with scaffolding for them be able to take more information in.

When it comes to involving parents in the classroom, it is important for educators to make the class environment welcoming to hearing and communicating back from parents. As an educator entering the profession, I know how important communication with parents should be. When given the opportunity to find aspects for back to school, I made sure the parents had a sheet to express their child's strengths,  needs, and concerns to make the flow of class easier with the knowledge of the students. On other days of the week throughout the year, I like to use class dojo points to show parents when their children are on track with their learning for their day. It helps students to want to follow expectations to have their parents know they were behaving.

Through my time in student teaching, I have been exposed to participating in grade group meetings, professional development, parent-teacher conferences, and spirit days. I also constantly communicated and collaborated with my mentor teacher and parts of the grade group team to help me build relationships with them. 

Being a good teacher means that you are constantly learning and willing to learn to have room for growth. Leaving room for growth is for the benefit of your students to improve the classroom and my teaching. I can improve my teaching by getting feedback and recommendations for fellow grade teachers. I can do this by networking with the teachers at the school I teach. I love getting insight into being a new teacher to my students so I can constantly develop for the better.

Being an educator one of your many roles is maintaining professionalism in school and the classroom. This is because being a teacher to your students means that you have to have their best interest at heart at all times. I thrive for professionalism through my lesson planning, providing differentiation, communicating with families, and being involved in the school community.