~ Isabel Fernandez ~
Standard IV
Teachers demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, reflection, and leadership.
Professional communication to me is understanding how to talk appropriately and differently between admin, teachers, students, and parents. With kids I am very informal. During my student teaching, I got to practice emailing the principal and parents which was very successful. I believe my professional behavior is not up for question, and my understanding of what different types of relationships in this career will look and sound like, is strong. How effective or “great” of a teacher I am is solely my responsibility. I believe that my improvement comes with evaluation of my self from others but also through holding myself accountable for thinking about my successes and weaknesses throughout the day to day. I grew my practice through these experiments of asking for help, and looking back at notes or resources I have received throughout my years of schooling for art education. I believe that my professionalism is Accomplished and I will continue to set high expectations for myself and continuously reflect on my teaching and make changes for the better.
Element A: Teachers demonstrate high standards for professional conduct.
Part of professionalism as a teacher comes from professional communication. This screenshot from an email I sent to the principle at my secondary placement demonstrates how I respect the administration's opinion and being on the same page with everyone at my school. This also demonstrates my professionalism when communicating with parents, my goal is to be clear an concise.
Element B: Teachers link professional growth to their professional goals.
This artifact contains notes that I took after teaching a more experimental collaborative lesson. After each expression of the lesson, I reflected and noted the changes I wanted to make. After three changes and reflection, I discovered a version of the same lesson, through reflection, that supported my students and the time we had best. Most of the time this reflection happens in my head, however, I am always reflecting and adapting to my individual classes so that I can be the best teacher for my students. Tis refelction leading to growth is integral to my success.
Element C: Teachers respond to a complex, dynamic environment.
I chose this artifact to demonstrate how I respond to a complex, dynamic environment because differentiation does exactly that. My use of differentiations demonstrates that I understand my students have diverse needs and some many need more supports or forms of ideation, and some may need more depth nad complexity. I clearly understand that no class will be the same and no student will be the same as their peers. My use of differentiation plans preemptively plans to support this diverse and complex environment each class brings to the table.
Element D: Teachers demonstrate leadership in the school, the community, and the teaching profession.
Outside of the classroom I I show leadership through demonstrating to students how to love and create art outside of the classroom. Art Club not only teaches deeper art practices, but it helps build community with students, especially with the students who love art but do not have an art class that quarter. Art Club provides opportunities to facilitates art projects while having conversations to get to know students becuase the projects are all no risk (not worth a grade).