Domain+4+-+Professional+Responsibilities

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4b - Maintaining Accurate Records
==== D uring my time student teaching I was responsible for keeping & maintaining accurate records. I got experience working with Easy Grade Pro; including inputting grades & exporting grades to parent link. I was responsible for managing the grading and inputting of grades for homeworks and tests. During this time I realized the importance of providing immediate feedback to students, which resulted in me ensuring that I was returning graded assignments in a timely manner. I also gained experience grading student's constructed response (questions requiring students to write reasoning behind solving a problem). For these I needed to establish a rubric or guide for how I would grade those portions of the test, so that I could ensure a fair and accurate grade for all students. I also learned that I needed to differentiate, not only instruction, but the manner in which I graded my accelerated students and my developmental students.====

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4f - Showing Professionalism
A dditionally, during my student teaching I participated and attended four parent teacher conferences. Two of which I completed independently. One of the parent teacher conferences involved me speaking to and translating for a non-English speaking parent.

D uring my semester I also took the initiative to call parents if a student had 2 or more missing assignments. This involved me using ClassXP to find home phone numbers (some numbers no longer worked so I followed through with the Main Office to retrieve updated numbers) and relay to parents their child's current progress within the classroom. Many of the parents I spoke with did not speak English and involved me communicating to them in Spanish.

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4e - Growing and Developing Professionally
I participated in Staff development days during my time student teaching. This included school wide meetings where a certain intervention or program was being taught, to grade level and content level meetings where we collaborated in our planning for the coming quarter or semester. I've come to a better understanding of the school culture and the importance of working with colleagues to provide a better quality of education to students. I believe it's really important for teachers to be life-long learners themselves, and always strive to improve their teaching; and Staff Development Days play an important role in that being accomplished. During these content level or grade level meetings I was given the opportunity to give input and suggestions, which validated me as a teacher. One thing that really stood out attending the professional development days was how it's important for the teachers in specific content areas and grade levels to address problems they recognize with their students. Together, we share the responsibility in improving our learning community.

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