Professional Standards For Teachers

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The professional standards for teachers were introduced by the college of teachers in 2006. The standards are a public account of what teachers in need to know, how they should practice and what should be valued. “The basic premise is that teachers are guided by a set of underlying ethical and professional standards that they must attain throughout the initial training and maintain throughout their professional lives” (Whitton, Barker, Nosworthy, Sinclair & Nanlohy 2010, p. 45). My personal teaching philosophy is to be an enthusiastic role model for my students. I play an integral role in preparing them for their futures so I need to support them, and create a rich and encouraging environment that empowers every child to succeed. In order to keep students engaged I will need to be organised in my planning and implementation of every lesson. I will also need to develop my teaching appropriately, it needs to be relevant to the students prior learning, interests and learning needs. Standard one requires me to be flexible, creative and to take a learner-centered approach to teaching that is imbedded with the use of ICTs. Generation Y have been born into a technological era, which makes them natural visual and kinesthetic learners. The use of technologies will also make the information more authentic and relatable to the real world of my students. I will implement Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) to scaffold the students to complete tasks that they may not have been able to complete on their own, so they develop the competence to do the task independently.(Groundwater-Smith, S., Mitchell, J., Brenan, McFadden, 2003 p. 118). This also means that the students, and myself, will be jointly involved in the construction of ideas and understanding. Encouraging and supporting students to learn individually and in groups is very important for their social
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