Professional Values and Personal Commitment:
This area of the standards demonstrate that each learner is influenced by the experiences that they have.
Social Justice- Education needs to be locally and globally embraces with inclusion and transparency to everyone. As an educator, every learner should be engaged and shown respect and the diversity of society.
Integrity- Openness and honesty need to be shown to learners as well as positive attitudes being shown so that the children are more likely to improve and become effective contributors to society.
Trust and Respect- As a teacher it is important to influence individuals and provide them with a well rounded and holistic education. It is also important for the children to feel safe in the education environment with the best intentions of motivating and inspiring ambition in each individual learner.
Professional Commitment- In order to work in an education environment commitment to your role is important as results will only happen through determination, enthusiasm and being adaptable for all scenarios and situations.
Professional Knowledge and Understanding:
Curriculum- Designing new concepts for children and interlinking different subjects allows for an all-rounded education. By providing support, challenges and stimuli for children to thrive, there will be more chance of the children succeeding and feeling positive about there education. However, if there are areas where some learners struggle, it is important for these to be identified and focussed on to improve their understanding. By using a range of techniques all areas of the children’s brains will be stimulated and as a result they will be more likely to absorb the information.
Education Systems and Professional Responsibilities- As a teacher having an awareness for international systems and the legal and professional factors to teaching is important as it allows for you to be full informed about the job and career. Understanding your pastoral responsibilities is really important as you will then be more equipped to provide your pupils with the necessary support and advice to the fullest extend of your knowledge. As well as knowing the children, it is important to know your colleagues as you all are working together for the same reasons and end points, and by collaborating everyone can provide advice to improve the overall responsibility and outcome to each child.
Pedagogical Theories- When teaching a class it is important to know all of the learners individually, their strengths and the areas which they need more support on, this is important to take into account as your lesson plans may need to be tailored more appropriately for the individual class.
Professional Skills and Abilities:
Teaching and Learning- A lesson plan needs to meet all of the needs of the learners and provide appropriate literacy models to develop the learner; reading, writing, listening and talking skills, to help their development. It is also important to promote healthy relationships so that the children have support from their peers and families as will as being able to provide this support to others. Developing tasks of an appropriate level to encourage and stimulate debate is important to develop opinions and understanding of different views, it also helps with communication and allows for concise endings to topics. Having commitment and confidence in yourself as a teacher is important as if you do not believe in yourself why would other people want to? You have to do know that you can do it, so by showing confidence in yourself you are setting a good example to your class.
Classroom Organisation and Management- Effectively displaying information is important as it means that the learners will be more engaged in what they are doing and learning about in their lessons. Using outdoor education is also very important to develop children’s senses and fine-motor skills and learn about positive behaviour. Showing care and commitment to the individuals is important for allowing the children to trust you and allows for the wellbeing indicators to be taken into account.
Pupil Assessment- Using formative and summative assessment, the children have a more rounded test as everybody learns in a different way and has different strengths which need to be represented. It is also important for the learners to take part in peer and self assessments in order to understand where they think they have gone wrong or where they have excelled as well as understanding how other children learn and demonstrate their understandings. It is important to record the results of assessments to ensure that each learner is improving or to see where more help is needed.
Professional Reflection and Communication- Reading and analysing literature is important in reflecting on your professional development and to build knowledge to challenge and inform your practice. Self-evaluations are important in order to reflect and engage with what you have taken part in and provided so that you can adopt and enquiring approach to improve your practice.
