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The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
The Danielson Framework is an evolving instructional resource that provides a roadmap for effective teaching. The Danielson framework divides teaching into six clusters of teaching responsibility: clarity and accuracy, teaching environment, classroom management, intellectual engagement, successful learning, and professionalism. In this paper, I discuss and reflect on an interview I had with a first grade, first year teacher.
This artifact is connected to the Illinois Professional Learning Standard 9.9k which states, "The competent teacher reflects on professional practice and resulting outcomes; engages in self-assessment and adjusts practices to improve student performance, school goals, and professional growth." By having an interview with a first year teacher I was able to discuss how the Danielson Framework plays a large role in teacher evaluation both professionally and on a personal level.
From this interview I was able to ask questions and discuss teacher evaluations and how they are connected to the Danielson Framework. The teacher I interviewed, Miss Moustakas, was able to give me plenty of advice for how to prepare for evaluations as well as how to use feedback from evaluations. As a teacher I now feel more confident and ready for when it is my time to have a classroom because I was able to connect with another teacher to get their honest thoughts about evaluations.
Elim Adult Placement for Transitioning Students
Adult Placement Poster.pptx
The IPTS standard 9 refers to professionalism, leadership and advocacy. Under standard 9. 9F) it is stated that the competent teacher, "understands the roles of an advocate, the process of advocacy, and its place in combating or promoting certain school district practices affecting students." I was able to present The Adult Placement for Transitioning Students poster with my partner at Elim school in Alsip. We shared information with special education teachers as well as paraprofessionals. This artifact explains what adult placement is, local placements for adults, the problems with adult placements, staff-to- client ratios, funding, a typical day in adult placement, and skills required to be a client in an adult placement. My partner and I collaborated on this project for a month before we presented our findings. While presenting the information, I needed to look and act professional, maintain a role of leadership in presenting our findings, and advocate to the community about adult placement findings for clients who need adult placement facilities. This presentation provided us the opportunity to learn and grow professionally by researching information to presenting it to the community in a professional manner. As an educator, I will continue to seek out professional opportunities within the school or district in which I work in.
I learned from this artifact how important it is to maintain professionalism, leadership, and advocacy as a professional educator. I was also able to learn how to collaborate with partners. Collaboration is vital when it comes to teaching because most school will have resources teachers, para professionals as well as general education and special education teachers. When teachers collaborate we are able to work as a team to provdived the best education possible for our students.
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