The first Characteristic I am going to look at is “have a
commitment to and skills for lifelong learning”. This characteristic describes
how teachers need to always be willing to learn new “tricks” and they need to
be committed to always making their teaching experience better for their
students. I think that a good artifact for this characteristic would be a
screen shot of a Pinterest board that I have created related to teaching and
the classroom. I think this is a good example of this characteristic because it
shows that you can go online and research new ideas. It also shows when you
have researched these ideas and that is an example that a teacher is always looking
for new ideas.
The second Characteristic I am going to look at is “be an
effective communicator”. The big ideas in this characteristic are that a
teacher must have communications skills to effectively communicate with various
people in the school and community. A teacher must be able to orally
communicate to people but also respond through written pieces and technology.
One artifact that can be used with this characteristic is our parent letter
home we were required to send out in Education 401. This letter was sent home
to parents to inform them about who we were and what we would be doing in their
child’s classroom. This would work for this characteristic because it shows
that teachers need to be in contact with parents at all times. Parents need to
feel like they can trust you and by having effective communication with them
you are opening the lines for them to trust you.
