Standards and Practice for the Teaching Profession
Professional Practice
Learning new technology to stay current in the department
Learning how to teach online
Learning ZOOM
Learning new skills in Adobe Suite
Becoming a creative thinker to respond to students needs.
Provide choice for students so they can find success
I have been able to adjust assignments for students needs such as students with Special Needs. (Modified assignment)
Learning new strategies for engagement in a hybrid classroom
Google slides
Pear deck
Hyperdocs
SAMR model
The foundations of Professional Practice
Professional Learning Framework for the Teaching Profession
Communicating with the public
Often I ask for community members to be clients for my students
Additional Qualifications
Completed my Masters of International Education
AQ courses like this one I have also taken Spec Ed part 1, Religion part 1,2 and Junior AQ, PQP 1 and PQP 2
Conceptual framework for ongoing professional learning
Professional Inqury
Learning through practice
Acceptance to redo a lesson if it didn't work or to change a lesson based on your audience.
Self- directed professional Learning
Creating PD videos for other staff members
PD conferences like BIT21
and for me taking the GOOGLE tests
OECTA PD sessions
Ethical Standards for Teaching Profession
Trust
Trust also needs to be acquired by the parents so early communication needs to be established
Establishing trust within the classroom is given I find in Academic classes but it needs to be earned in applied classes from the students to the teacher.
Integrity
Sharing teaching strategies with new teachers or with others. Brainstorming to help the overall profession
Professional reflections helps teachers understand their practice and make it better.
Respect
I think the best thing a teacher can do to establish respect is to ask questions. Honest questions to understand past experiences, present hesitations and expectations for the future.
Understanding students emotional wellbeing can only be achieved if respect is mutually given.
Teachers have a hard job establishing trust in certain classes. ie) applied vs academic
Care
Teacher need to show empathy towars students but yet use professional judgment to know what the student needs to succeed.
Regardless of who the student is they are accepted in the classroom. A teachers job is to ensure that is maintained from all students.
Teachers show compassion when they learn to understand their students.
Professional Knowledge
National Film Board of Canada
Curriculum Council between the 9 highschools who currently have Comm Tech.
Adobe Exchange.com
Edge Factor resources
Skills Ontario utilizing their programs for students
LINK TO SKILLS
Staying current with industry standards
OnGoing Professional Development
Participating in PD sessions thought OECTA
Learning from others through email communication or now zoom PD calls.
Technology Specialist course - taking courses to gain more understanding of how to teach the courses I am assigned.
Presentations at various conferences. #BIT 21 on Feb 28
LINK to BIT21
Register for great PD
Courses constantly taking PD courses to stay current
Leadership in Learning Communities
TLLP for two years I lead a group of teachers for our project
LINK to website of TLLP from 2019
LINK to website of TLLP from 2018
Part of the PD committee for OECTA
In collaboration, we created a website for our school for virtual parent night.
LINK to WESBITE
Participate in PLCs within the board currently working in conjunction with teachers to learn better ways to teach hybrid
Also participating in a PLC for teacher teaching ICS or TEJ courses so that we can pool our resourced together to create more of dynamic shell in Brightspace.
Chair of Information and Communication Technology
Technical support for students
Personally I am the go to for tech support in my school
Commitment to Students and Student Learning
ELL students are provided instruction in their native language
Provide various forms of instruction (visual and audio)
Relevant current examples
Parental Communication concerning achievement
Client based work to provide authentic real world work
Creative project based learning activities
