Educators value and care for all students and act in their best interests.
Educators are responsible for fostering the emotional, esthetic, intellectual, physical, social and vocational development of students. They are responsible for the emotional and physical safety of students. Educators treat students with respect and dignity. Educators respect the diversity in their classrooms, schools and communities. Educators have a privileged position of power and trust. They respect confidentiality unless disclosure is required by law. Educators do not abuse or exploit students or minors for personal, sexual, ideological, material or other advantage.
Artifact
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Click on the picture below to view my literacy assessment
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This piece of evidence is a literacy assessment I did on a grade 4 student at Georgia Avenue Elementary School. I was a reader/scribe for the student while they completed the NLPS (Nanaimo Public Ladysmith Schools) Intermediate Assessment for Learning. The file to the right is my analysis of the grade 4 student’s performance and the strengths, stretches, and next steps I recommend for the student. The tool I used to create this assessment was Microsoft Word.
Insights Gained
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While doing this assessment, I was able to gain experience using the NLPS Intermediate Assessment for Learning. I got to experience working as a reader/scribe for a student and working one-on-one with a student, which was very insightful. In addition, I was able to gain experience and practice analyzing a student’s assessment.
Connections to Teaching Practice
As a future educator, I need to know and understand these assessment practices, as they will a part of my job one day. Any time in schools is beneficial to us as pre-service teachers but it was a privilege to be able to experience the NLPS Intermediate Assessment for Learning first hand. This artifact shows that educators are responsible for fostering emotional and intellectual safety of student development and that educators hold a special position of trust.
Artifact
This piece of evidence is an assignment I completed for my Principles of Teaching course at Vancouver Island University. For this assignment, I had to choose a learner "like me" and a learner "unlike me" and do a short case study on both of them in order to develop a stronger understanding of both of the students.
Insights Gained
This assignment gave me really good insight into how both of these students learn as individuals. Using the information I gathered about these students, I was able to think about how to best teach to meet their learner needs. I was really able to see these students as individuals.
Connections to Teaching Practice
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As a future educator, I will be teaching a class full of new students every year and it is important to see them all as individuals and not assume that they are all the same or learn the same way. We need to address all of their different learner needs to allow them the best education possible. This artifact demonstrates that educators treat students with respect and dignity as well as foster their emotional safety.
"Our job is to teach the students we have. Not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them."
- Dr. Kevin Maxwell
- Dr. Kevin Maxwell