InTASC Standard 9
InTASC Standard #9 Professional Learning and Ethical Practice:
The teacher engages in ongoing professional learning and uses evidence to continually evaluate his/her practice, particularly the effects of his/her choices and actions on others (learners, families, other professionals, and the community), and adapts practice to meet the needs of each learner (InTASC, 2013).
Brief Discription of Evidence:
During the spring semester of 2022 as part of my EDUC 250- Educational Psychology class, I participated in two training opportunities; coding and computer science training for elementary teachers with TechWise and suicide prevention training. In coding and computer science, we were able to interact with robots, and different games, and learned more about coding and how it could be beneficial in a classroom. With suicide prevention training, Jason Murrey taught us more about how it is okay to talk to someone who is thinking about suicide and how to help de-escalate situations.
Analysis of What I Learned:
Throughout each of these training, I have learned a lot of knowledge to take with me as I go through being a future educator. In coding and computer science with TechWise, I was taught different sites for students to use that would be a fun way to teach coding. I was also able to play around with a robot that we coded to run. I learned about a game you could play with students to code without even realizing it was coding. I learned that coding and computer science could be very beneficial in the classroom by teaching students to think logically, use problem-solving skills, and use creativity. With the suicide prevention training, I was taught how to talk to someone if they were thinking about suicide. I was also taught to ask them “What do you mean by…” to help get knowledge of how they really felt. I learned that it is okay to ask someone if they are thinking about suicide and if they had a plan and that it is okay to just talk to them about it without feeling uncomfortable. I learned that there are a lot of people that are struggling with suicide and they just want someone to listen to them and have someone to talk to. I learned that there are hotlines out there to give students to have someone to talk to if they feel like they do not have anyone to talk to. If you are able to see the signs of suicide you would be able to prevent it and maybe help save a life.
How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard:
I have demonstrated my competence in this standard by completing both of the training opportunities. I engaged in ongoing professional learning by participating in both the coding and computer science training for elementary with TechWise and suicide prevention training. I was able to use this evidence to use the knowledge I gained for my present self and for my future classroom. The effect that the suicide prevention training took place on me was to look for signs that a person wants to commit suicide or that they are depressed. I would be able to know what this looks like with my students, family, friends, colleagues, or my city community. I was taught to help others instead of just looking and not acknowledging what they are going through. With the coding and computer science training, I would be able to adapt this to my future classroom by using a fun learning tool for students to learn to code on their computers. I would even be able to use different technologies so students are able to engineer and code their own robots to work. The world is constantly evolving and being able to include these new techniques I learned in both of the training will be beneficial to me as a teacher to adapt and learn more about how I can help in different situations such as with the suicide prevention training. I would be able to find new simulations that will help students in more than just one area such as coding and computer science. I would be able to adapt each of the learners with this practice to potentially help a student not commit suicide. I would also be able to adapt this practice if a student has a harder time with subject areas, we could use coding to help an individual if they learn better that way. One theorist that ties in with these artifacts is Jerome Bruner because he believed that students learn by using a coding system. As stated in research, “...learners construct their own knowledge and do this by organizing and categorizing information using a coding system” (McLeod, 2019). This is important because students are able to use the coding system to fix their mistakes and continue through the simulation. It is easier for them to understand if they are able to experience it rather than being told by someone else.
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