Professional Development
Standard #10
Teachers shall participate as active, responsible members of the professional community, engaging in a
wide range of reflective practices, pursuing opportunities to grow professionally and establishing collegial relationships to enhance the teaching
and learning process.
Teachers shall participate as active, responsible members of the professional community, engaging in a
wide range of reflective practices, pursuing opportunities to grow professionally and establishing collegial relationships to enhance the teaching
and learning process.
Interpretation
As teachers, we must be active in consistently pursuing new teaching concepts and techniques, establishing professional relationships, and improving our own teaching in the classroom.
As teachers, we must be active in consistently pursuing new teaching concepts and techniques, establishing professional relationships, and improving our own teaching in the classroom.
Application
Music educators must be constantly aware of changes in the field of education, possible contacts of outside professionals, new teaching tactics or ideas specifically for the classroom, and of their own teaching and how to improve their philosophies or methods. I have been a member of NAfME and ACDA for several semesters, and I have found these organizations to be a key part in my discovery of new methods and ideas for teaching. I have completed Critical Pedagogy courses discussing all of the concepts discussed in these standards while learning to challenge my own teaching strategies and ideas.
Music educators must be constantly aware of changes in the field of education, possible contacts of outside professionals, new teaching tactics or ideas specifically for the classroom, and of their own teaching and how to improve their philosophies or methods. I have been a member of NAfME and ACDA for several semesters, and I have found these organizations to be a key part in my discovery of new methods and ideas for teaching. I have completed Critical Pedagogy courses discussing all of the concepts discussed in these standards while learning to challenge my own teaching strategies and ideas.