Professionalizing Teaching
So many education reforms have centered on a main goal of professionalizing teachers and making teachers better. I believe rather than focusing on teachers being good or bad, we need to focus on professionalizing the act of teaching. We should make sure everyone in the profession of teaching agrees that teaching consists of collaboration, coherence, and most importantly, centered around student learning. To some of us these characteristics of teaching seem obvious, but throughout grade school I was not taught this way and I have observed teachers today not teaching with these characteristics in mind.
This section is about my ability to Teach. It goes into my experiences during Student Teaching at Rockford High School in the fall of 2014 and Teacher Assisting at Riverside Middle School in the winter of 2013. Click the appropriate link below to see more.
InTASC Standards Addressed
Standard #1: Learning Development
Standard #2: Learning Differences
Standard #3: Learning Environments
Standard #4: Content Knowledge
Standard #5: Application of Content
Standard #8: instructional Strategies
Standard #1: Learning Development
Standard #2: Learning Differences
Standard #3: Learning Environments
Standard #4: Content Knowledge
Standard #5: Application of Content
Standard #8: instructional Strategies