Unit 3: Teaching Standards and Clinical Reflection

Target Objective: Through connecting to New York State Teaching Standards, course users demonstrate professional knowledge, skills and dispositions for the profession through writing clinical and reflective commentary to give meaning to artifacts.

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Are you seeing connections between state professional standards and your practice? In Unit 2, you explored the New York State Teaching Standards with respect to your district's APPR. You selected an element of one of the seven Standards to demonstrate your proficiency in meeting this standard. You provided evidence of meeting this element of the Standard through embedding several related artifacts of your practice in a portfolio page. Superb ... really!

Take this moment to bask in the glow of your accomplishment: reflect on how you think about professional standards of teaching now versus your thoughts prior to starting Unit 2. Greater insight, yes? This is the essence of on-going professional growth. In this moment, you are achieving the goal of being a life-long learner!

Continue with this professional growth. In Unit 3, you will complete activities in Lesson 3.1 to develop your skill in writing narrative that illuminates your knowledge, skills, and dispositions (KSD) for the profession of teaching. You will reflect on your KSD for teaching based on the artifacts you selected in Unit 2. For professional tone, you will explore your KSD through the lens of the Teaching Standards. By completing Unit 3, you will have developed one page of your portfolio. You will have accomplished four of the five steps in the process of designing and developing a portfolio as taught in this mini-course. Are you ready to forge ahead?

Lesson 3.1: Elements of Effective Clinical Reflection

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