InTASC Standard 10
InTASC Standard #10 Leadership and Collaboration :
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession (InTASC, 2013).
Brief Discription of Evidence:
In the spring semester of 2022, in my EDUC 230 The Exceptional Child class, I participated in simulated scenario conferences. We worked in groups and we chose between 4 different scenarios. We decided to pick scenario 4 about a girl named Victoria who struggles with reading, anxiety, ADD, and slight depression. We talked about techniques that would help Victoria in her classes and at home and working more with her to help with her reading. We talked to the mother about continuing with an IEP evaluation and set up another meeting after the IEP evaluation was finished. In the second meeting, we discussed the IEP and how well Victoria was progressing throughout the techniques such as praise, staying calm, walking, etc.
Analysis of What I Learned:
Throughout the Exceptional Child class, I was able to learn a lot of new things such as accommodations, modifications, and inclusion. I learned more about future conferences and what I could bring into them to help parents understand what is happening in the classroom more and what could potentially help the student. I learned that it is important to stay organized, manage eye contact, and ask questions to make sure parents/guardians if they have any questions or concerns about the process of an IEP. I learned that knowing maintaining eye contact, staying organized, and asking questions helps relieve the parent/guardian that we know what we are doing if the parent/guardian understands what we will be doing to help the child, and if the parent/guardian understands how beneficial it will be for the student.
How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard:
I have demonstrated my competence in this standard by preparing and completing the scenario conferences. My team members and I were able to come together as a Teacher, Reading Resource Teacher, and Counselor/Principal during the meeting and talk to the mother about how important the techniques and IEP will be for the student. One theorist I think is important to this project is Joyce Epstein, because she believed that parent involvement is important for all children to succeed. According to research, “The main reason to create such partnerships is to help all youngsters succeed in school and in later life” (Epstein, 2019). This means to me that to be able to help the student become successful parents and teachers should come together, communicate, and collaborate with each other. I was able to take part as the teacher to come up with ways to help the student with her reading skills, ADD, slight depression, and anxiety so the student is able to learn and focus in class. I was able to collaborate with the learner by finding books that were differentiated for her reading level. I was able to also work with the mother to talk to her about what we would be doing to help the student, if the mother had any questions, or if the mother would like to add anything. I was able to ensure learner growth by having meetings with colleagues and the parent to see how well the student was progressing through working with the reading resource teacher for extra help and talking with the counselor to help with her behavior. I was able to advance the profession by focusing on more differentiated lesson plans to help a large range of students instead of a small range of students. I was able to work with my colleagues by coming up with ways that would be beneficial to the student to help her exceed her reading skills and coming up with different ways to help the student if she becomes overwhelmed with her anxiety and depression. I also came up with different ways to help the student with her ADD. I was able to work with the reading resource teacher about different strategies to help the student with her reading like the differentiated groups and books. I will be able to use this to seek leadership opportunities by asking for feedback from the parents on what they think I should adjust during an IEP meeting. This would advance my profession by giving me more insight on what to do and have during an IEP meeting to make me better aware and prepared.
Resources
Council of Chief State School Officers. (2013, April). Interstate Teacher
Assessment and Support Consortium InTASC Model Core
Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development Washington, DC: Author.
Epstein, J. L., et al. (2019). School, Family, and Community Partnerships:
Your Handbook for Action. Fourth edition. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Corwin Press.
