The Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession:
1) Commitment to students and student learning
2) Professional knowledge
3) Professional practice
4) Leadership in learning communities
5) Ongoing professional learning
The Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession:
1) Care
2) Respect
3) Integrity
4) Trust
Within my lessons, I have ensured to include the standards of practice, ethical standards for the teaching profession, UDL and DI. I have created lessons using a variety of tools and techniques, including video resources, text based readings, interactive games, and lots of discussion. Here students are given opportunities to learn the same material in a variety of different ways. A lesson that highlights this well is my lesson on antibiotic resistance. Here students discuss antibiotic resistance in groups, take effective notes while doing online research and play a video game. The teacher can adapt the material to the class, changing some resources from text based into videos and vice versa. This can also be seen within my laboratory lesson, where the teacher will demo the lab with verbal explanations to students, before students attempt the lab themselves. When attempting the lab, students are provided with written instructions, and in this way students who learn orally and through text are accommodated. UDL is highlighted in the microorganisms and the environment lesson. Here students may conduct a presentation, submit a written response or create a graphical representation of their research. This allows students of different learning styles to excel at the same topic.
Diversity and inclusion can be seen both within societal implications section of this website, as well as during the Minecraft digital videogame. Within the societal implications section, I have included both an interview with professor Mary Burtnick and an article highlighting the differences in gut biome between people from around the world. The first of these resources highlights Mary Burtnick, a prominent woman in STEM. discussing careers in microbiology how the material they are learning now is directly applicable to the working world. Covering this may help some women become more interesting in STEM, as the resource we are examining represents them. Secondly, the article about the differences in gut biomes around the world may help students better understand the potential different medical professionals must take to accommodate people of different races. Much more differs between races that just gut biomes, and it is extremely important that research on all races is carried out to provide all people with the best medical care possible. Finally, the Minecraft digital videogame provides students with the opportunity to customize their character however they like. Just like in our digital videogame project, this provides students with the ability to represent their avatar the way they see fit, providing them with a means of representing themselves.