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INTASC Standard #9 |
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Professional Commitment and Responsibility |
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My
professional development log for the fall semester of 2001 can show
evidence of my continued growth through profesional obligations. The
MENC meetings that I attended were about Student Teaching and the
IMEA conference that I attended in January gave me a lot of valuable
information on teaching general music and choosing literature for my ensembles.
The student teaching meeting allowed us to talk to a couple of our peers
who are currently doing the student teaching; they talked to us about experiences
and allowed us to ask questions. At the IMEA conference meeting, we
talked about some of the sessions that would be held at this conference and
which sessions would be most beneficial to attend. Through my involvement
with SAI, I have had a lot of opportunities to grow. I feel that the
biggest step I've made with this group is being a song leader for them.
I have introduced them to new music, as well as reviewed what they already
know. The one thing working with these women has done for me, is allow
me to become more confident in myself as a teacher and a singer. During
EDSEC380 and EDJHM385, I was asked to address the
cooperating teacher in a letter stating who I was and what I was interested
in gaining from the teaching experience in their classroom. My
professional growth plan was updated and talks about the experiences
I had and the growth I think I accomplished over the semester.
My reflection papers from my teachings and my professional development long provide evidence of my continued efforts to improve and develop. The reflections give me an opportunity to recognize and discuss things I feel I have done well and those things I feel I can improve on. I discuss in the reflections how I think I can change my lessons and teachings to better my effectiveness. My professional development shows that I attended several meetings throughout the semester. These meetings address issues I will face as a teacher and how I choose to handle these situations. The meetings also provide opportunities for me to improve my portfolios, lesson plans, teaching styles, and knowledge of materials and resources. Attending MENC and being a member of SAI has challenged me to become better in my teachings. The students I have the opportunity to interact with in these organizations give me insight and encouragement to do better that what I am currently doing. They are there to help me in any way that they can and often look to me for help as well. This is a relationship that is not only a friendship, but also an encouragement and almost a challenge to be the best. My self-assessment is a form that I filled out about how adequate I see myself as being in specific areas of music. By filling this out, it made me think that there are definitely some areas that I need to work to improve. At the end, I wrote an essay stating the things I needed to work on and how I intended to improve in these areas. At the end of the semester, I revisited this assessment and wrote an essay about how I felt I had improved and what I felt I needed to continue to work on.
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