Career long Learning
Teaching is a career in which like the students, you are forever learning. Learning from mistakes, other teachers, research or new technologies.
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A huge part in becoming a teacher is collaboration with other teachers in order to build that personal and collective professional capacities and expertise.
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In my PSII experience, I have learned the importance of actively seeking out feedback from not only my Teaching Assistant but from my University Consultant as well.
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Their feedback combined as helped me enhance my teaching experience tremendously. I look forward to taking their feedback and incorporating it into my future career as a teacher.
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Included above is a feedback slip that I received from my University Consultant (a previous teacher herself) after one of my lessons. Just as feedback is an important element for students it is also necessary for teachers as well. Taking what went well and what could have gone better and working to enhance my teaching practice by working on those areas of growth and continuing to include the successes stated.
-actively seeking out feedback to enhance teaching practice
-collaborating with other teachers to build personal and collective professional capacities and expertise
Teaching is a profession which is collaborative by nature and if you do not work as a team, an individual will sink very quickly on their own.
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Right from the start of my PS3 practicum this was evident, we were asked the first day back to work together in a small group to come up with a PRAXIS (process by which an idea or a strategy is put in place and practiced) goal for the year.
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Working collaboratively as a team, we agreed on the goal of creating academic conversation. Also this goal was slightly modified for each individual teacher and their classroom. Working together allowed us to think of ideas and solutions for academic conversation in the classroom
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Shown to the right is our shared google doc in which we worked to brainstorm how this would look in each classroom. As well we discussed the importance of collecting evidence to determine if strategy of academic conversations was being achieved or not in the classroom.
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Being an intern teacher working with 3 other seasoned teachers for this goal, truly gave me the insight to how valuable collaborative work is in a school. Each individual brings something new to the table and if we do not take the opportunity to listen and share, we will miss out on career-long learning.
