Robert
Dodd Portfolio
Standard 7
Teachers
reflect on, evaluate and improve their professional knowledge and practice.
Teachers regularly reflect on and critically
evaluate their professional knowledge and the effectiveness of their teaching;
My reflections:
As a teacher in an international language school for 4 years, I endeavoured to reflect on and critically evaluate my professional knowledge and the effectiveness of my teaching.
As a
pre-service teacher at
The teaching
mentor at
- Reflection on and critical
evaluation of own planning and practise
The mentor teacher marked my teaching performance as good on this assessment.
My future professional learning goals:
It is a goal of
mine to continue to improve in this criterion through professional development,
experience, and collaboration with teaching colleagues.
Teachers work
collaboratively with other members of the profession and engage in discussion
of contemporary issues and research to improve
professional practice;
My reflections:
As a
pre-service teacher at
The teaching
mentor at
- Awareness of working with members of
the school community such as other teachers, parents/guardians.
For these competencies I was assessed by the teacher mentor with an excellent result.
My future professional learning goals:
Also, I have studied
the following information and aim to improve my professional standards as a
teacher. The book is by Judyth Sachs and highlights the importance of professional teaching
standards. It includes the following information. http://www.amazon.com/Activist-Teaching-Profession-Judyth-Sachs/dp/0335208185
9-10-2006
What forms of professionalism are shaping the teaching
profession? How can the concept of teacher professionalism be revitalized so
that it is relevant to the needs and aspirations of teachers working in
increasingly difficult and constantly changing work environments? The Activist
Teaching Profession examines the issue of teacher professionalism as a social
and political strategy to enhance the status and activities of the teaching
profession. The book is contextualized within current debates, both government
policy and scholarly, about teacher professionalism.
Evidence to support the development of alternative forms of teacher
professionalism utilizing new structural arrangements with various stakeholders
through collaboration and cooperation, is represented using examples from
A strategy for re-establishing the moral and intellectual leadership of the
teaching profession along activist lines is developed in the last section of
the book. Issues surrounding teacher professional identity are examined in the
light of the discourses that are shaping teacher professionalism. Rethinking
professional identity provides a basis for developing new forms of teacher
professionalism. The Activist Teaching Profession is both a wake up call and a
call to action for teachers and the community alike.
Sachs, Judyth: The Activist Teaching Profession Open University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2003)
Teachers identify their own professional learning
needs and plan for and engage in professional development activities;
My reflections:
Having identified my own professional learning needs and the
need to plan for and engage in professional development activities, I am
currently studying a Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education at
My future professional learning goals:
I intend to continuously identify my own professional learning needs and plan for and engage in whatever necessary PD activities are required or necessary.
Teachers develop organisational and
administrative skills to manage their non-teaching duties effectively.
My reflections:
The following are examples of how I have increased my organisational and administrative skills in other work experiences in the past. I have shown that I always have had a desire to improve my professionalism I would continue to do the same thing in the teaching field. I would also be able to use these transferable skills in administration, management and other related fields to manage my non-teaching duties effectively.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Click here)
Certificate IV Category 2: Workplace Training TAFE;
Certificate Computer Accounting
Certificate Bookkeeping
Certificate III Business Administration: TAFE;
Legal Studies Qualification IP Australia: Legal Studies (Credit);
Financial Diploma Subjects:
IP Licensing &
Tender Writing Course (TAFE);
Auditor training: Manufacturing Practice; Laboratory Practice; Clinical Practice;
Quality Assurance ISO 9001 Course (- Telectronics);
Occupational/Workplace Health and Safety Levels 1 and 2 -NSCA (QLD);
Communication and Management Training -National Bank;
Quality Standards Conceptual Training (NATA);
Risk Management (TAFE);
Contracts Diploma A.I.I.: (Honours, First In
My future professional learning goals:
It is a goal of
mine to continue to improve in this criterion through professional development,
experience, and collaboration with teaching colleagues.
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