1. Professionalism, Law & Ethics
Christina Kim
David Winterbottom
Jennifer Pietrangelo
Myles Wagman
Emily Dalgleish
David Thompson

2. Simpsons Koan

3. The First Principle – A Koan for Reflection
When one goes to Obaku temple in Kyoto he sees carved over the gate the words "The First Principle". The letters are unusually large, and those who appreciate calligraphy always admire them as being a masterpiece. They were drawn by Kosen two hundred years ago.
When the master drew them he did so on paper, from which the workmen made the large carving in wood. As Kosen sketched the letters a bold pupil was with him who had made several gallons of ink for the calligraphy and who never failed to criticize his master's work.
"That is not good," he told Kosen after his first effort.
"How is this one?"
"Poor. Worse than before," pronounced the pupil.
Kosen patiently wrote one sheet after another until eighty-four First Principles had accumulated, still without the approval of the pupil.
Then when the young man stepped outside for a few moments, Kosen thought: "Now this is my chance to escape his keen eye," and he wrote hurriedly, with a mind free from distraction: "The First Principle."
"A masterpiece," pronounced the pupil.

4. If you teach to satisfy other people’s concept of good teaching, you will never achieve it. We teach best when we are ourselves. A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown

5. Infusing the Standards of Practice Into Everyday Teaching
By Deborah P. Berrill 5

6. Standard Professional Practice
Own Beliefs and Values 6

7. Teachers must not depend on their own values when they teach
A Commitment to Values
Teaching and Learning
Providing Accountability

8. A commitment to values The standards of practices
Reflection of the beliefs and values
Recognition and Value diversity in teaching
Developmental process of Teacher

9. Commitment to students and learning
Professional Knowledge
Teaching Practice
Leadership
Community

10. Teaching and Learning Incorporating Standard of practice with teaching
Dimensions of teaching
Critical expectation/values
Becomes a critical practitioner

11. Providing accountability
Professional Value
Professional Standards
-Consistency/Excellence in the daily practice
-Reflection of own practices to shared standards
-Future professional learning

12. Based on the standard context of professional values, it provides teachers to reflect on their ongoing profession

13. What is a teaching portfolio?
Broad metaphors that explain one’s teaching philosophy
A structured history that can include:
Acts of teaching
Samples of student work
Reflective writing

14. Features of a portfolio
Portfolio development: collaborative activity taking place through conversations with mentors and peers
Set of goals and standards
Evidence about learning about teaching
Personal reflections on what was learned

15. Why are they useful? Help teachers define good practice
As a process teachers use to reflect on their own teaching
Can be used to get students to reflect on their learning

16. Activity – Portfolio Creation
Each table has a mysterious package which contains elements that could help make up a teaching portfolio
As a group, decide which pieces are the most important, and which ones could be omitted.

17. Using teaching Portfolios

18. What is a teaching portfolio?

19. Portfolio vs Folio Is there a difference?

20. What is an artifact?

21. Remember....
When selecting an artifact for a portfolio, a teacher should consider these questions:     1) Why is this artifact better than other artifacts that I could choose?     2) Does this artifact provide evidence of my growth and success against one or more performance standards?     3) Can I rationalize the importance of this artifact to those viewing it out of context?     4) Is this artifact a result of my professional growth and accomplishments? Have I grown as a result of the artifact?     5) How does this artifact represent who I am as a teacher?

22. The most important part of a portfolio?
Reflection!

23. Portfolios : A Tool to Support Teacher Learning

24. Why has portfolio evaluation caused some problems?
Controversies
Why has portfolio evaluation caused some problems?

25. The Heart of a Teacher Identity and Integrity in Teaching
By Parker J. Palmer
Writer, teacher, activist
Issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change

26. Difficulties with Teaching
Subjects too BIG
Students too complex
We teach who we are

27. We teach who we are?
For better or worse, teaching emerges from one’s inwardness
“Stop projecting your soul onto me!”
“I can’t!!!”
So Socrates wasn’t just messing with Plato when he said, ‘Know Thyself’?
In drama, call teacher-in-role
Teacher as an active participant and learner
Must expose yourself to students

28. The 3 Paths
Intellectual
Emotional
Spiritual

29. = + + Education at its Best Intellectual – cold abstraction
Emotional – narcissistic
Spiritual – loses anchor to the real world
Education at its Best

30. Intellectual The way we think about teaching and learning
The form and content of our concepts of how people know and learn

31. Emotional The way we and our students feel as we teach and learn
Feelings can either enlarge or diminish the exchange between us

32. Spiritual
Diverse ways we answer the heart’s longing to be connected with the largeness of life
This longing will animate our love and work

33. Which trait does not belong to good educators?
Dr. A is really there when she teaches.
Mr. B has such enthusiasm for his subject.
Mrs. U’s words float somewhere in front of her face, like the balloon speech in cartoons.
You can tell that this is really Prof. C’s life.

34. The Secret of Good Teaching
Wait for it….
Are you ready?...
Any guesses?...
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher

35. “Identity lies in the intersection of the diverse forces that make up my life”
“Integrity lies in relating to those forces in ways that bring me wholeness and life rather than fragmentation and death”
Wow…that’s deep

36. Alan and Eric: A case study
Both rural, skilled craftspeople
Shared pride in skilled craftsmanship
Both excelled in school and chose academic careers
However…..

38. Similar backgrounds, divergent paths
Palmer suggests Eric chose the wrong vocation
Did Eric choose the “wrong” career? What could he of done differently?

39. What is Palmer’s definition of “heart”?
Heart= coming together of intellect, emotion and spirit

40. Teaching with heart= being vulnerable Subject to ridicule & indifference

41. What happens when a teacher loses heart?

42. Question: How did this affect you as a student?
Have you ever had a teacher who lost their heart?
How did this affect you as a student?
Did it affect your perception of a specific subject area?

43. Question: What things can we, as prospect teachers, do to keep our heart alive?