Candidates manage their continued learning and professional development through continuous reflection about their teaching knowledge, dispositions, skills, and practices.

The candidate is committed to reflection and self-analysis resulting in continuous professional development.

This exhibit demonstrates my proficiency in managing continued learning and professional development through continuous reflection about teaching knowledge, dispositions, skills, and practices. By creating a classroom audit of teaching and learning methods, a classroom materials list, and an adaptations chart, I have demonstrated reflection, self-analysis, and lesson modification as described in Domain Indicator 4.2. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) make the important point that teachers who are willing to commit to professional development will not only learn new techniques, but will also discover their use of techniques that don’t work. In order to improve, the teacher must be willing to take the risk of exposure.

Creating the classroom audit helped raise my awareness of the common techniques I fall back on in my teaching. It serves as an excellent starting point for venturing into new, potentially more effective territory. Creating the classroom materials list also proved effective in developing a deeper appreciation of the tools at my disposal, and in understanding the effect the presence of those materials has on students. This appreciation will help me to see new, more powerful ways to use the tools I have been given.

Dr. Decker, the professor for EDU 565, can verify the authenticity of the artifacts.

Replace this text with a description of any hard evidence, meaning data, that can show your P-12 students improved their learning as a result of this activity (consult help for more details)