Characteristics of the Novice Teacher 2nd posting

Characteristic 3: The novice teacher should recognize teaching is a professional, moral, ethical enterprise. The novice teacher must recognize what is appropriate and what reflects one being a professional in the eyes of a child by setting good example and being a good role model. Being professional is shown through your dress attire, your teaching, and your attitude. It is important a teacher knows how to be professional in such an environment because you are constantly being watched and making an impact on a child. This all goes along with understanding moral and ethical enterprise as well. It can be hard to allow personal beliefs into the classroom but the novice teacher must balance what is to be taught and not allowing too much of your own beliefs influence someone. Allow students to make up their own minds but present the information and all sides. The artifact I feel represents this characteristic is my character education lesson. This lesson was about responsibility and I taught it in a pre-school classroom. I did a read aloud and talked with the students about the different ways that you can be responsible and examples of ways that are irresponsible. I also had the students come up with new ways if they could think of any where they will try to be responsible in. This artifact really shows how the novice teacher can practice professionalism, moral, and ethical enterprise all into one lesson. Characteristic 8: The novice teacher should be a reflective practitioner. As educators, we are lifelong learners as well. The only way to learn and improve the classroom is to be reflective practitioner. The novice teacher reflects after lessons whether it is written down or just from ones memory of how a lesson went or a behavior or practice in the classroom that the teacher wants to look further into or something new. A great way to put your reflections into practice is doing research and conducting new practices in the classroom to see what works and what doesn’t. An artifact I would use for this characteristic is when I videotape a lesson. This will show exactly everything I need to see in how I teach and how my students are while I teach. From this video, I can then reflect and decide what I need to do to better myself and my teaching strategies. I will be doing this in the beginning of full time teaching and in the end to see how I have improved. This artifact is a great example of being a reflective practitioner and can be done more than once. It is something that makes reflecting a lot easier I think because we obviously cannot watch ourselves or really be observant to every detail that is taking place during a lesson whether it is with ourselves or how the students are behaving. The video allows us to see how it all plays out and you can watch it as many times as needed thus allowing the reflection process to be a lot more beneficial.