PROF - Reflection 2
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Tally Wilkinson Sept. 22/23 Reflection 2: Ethical Standards of the Teaching Profession 1. Reflect on your experiences as a learner. Share an example of a time you've witnessed an educator demonstrate each of the 4 ethical standards. Please use the definitions provided by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) to support your descriptions. Do not include any names in your response. Respect My high schools’ visual arts teacher was always very respectful towards students. He was the only teacher that I had who got us to identify our pronouns so himself as well as everyone in the class could learn and address each other properly. He did always identify everyone properly and he would call everyone by their preferred names. Doing this shows respect to students by accepting and acknowledging how they identify. A specific example of a time I recall him showing respect was to one of my friends. My friends’ name is spelt Mia, but it is pronounced like M-ya not Me-a. Every teacher we had and most people in general called her Me-
a and she just accepted it after herself or a friend correcting people almost every time. The art teacher was the only one to always call her by the correct pronunciation of her name. This shows respect because he took the time to learn and remember how everyone is to be addressed. Integrity I can think of a very important example to me about my English teacher showing integrity in my first year of high school. I did not have an assignment done on time and it was my class time to present. I believe it was already a bad week for me and I had mistaken the fact that I had this assignment due to reading in front of the class. It wasn’t a long response, but I did not have time to have the reading and assignment done by the time I had to present so I went to her right before class to explain. She understood and I could submit my assignment on a later date. I was still incredibly anxious to have nothing to present and I expressed my worry to my teacher. As I explained in my last reflection, this teacher would do all the assignments herself as well. She let me give her an assignment to present so I would have something and wouldn’t have to be upset or worried. I think that this showed integrity because she expressed that she was reliable and morally did the right thing for me at the time when she saw how upset I was. Care My favorite teacher in high school was a math teacher, and he stands out to me when it comes to an educator demonstrating care to a student. He genuinely wanted everyone to do well and made sure everyone knew that by having his classroom always open for everyone to come in. I had a harder time with math and sciences because it took me a longer time to understand everything new that we learned. Therefore, in this class I had a lot of questions and required a lot of extra help in order to understand the material. My teacher spent a lot of his own time helping me to understand the material because the lessons were not enough for me.
Tally Wilkinson Sept. 22/23 I remember spending a lot of time getting help during our lunch hour or before and after school from my teacher, as did many other students. My teacher wanted us to do well and showed care by using his own time to help everyone achieve success in the math classes. I went on to other math classes with different teachers, but I would still go to this teacher at lunch or after school for help with these other classes. This really showed that he cared as well because he was helping me in classes that he didn’t even teach and even classes that were not his subject. He would give people who need help one-on-one extra lessons and practice questions, and this is really what helped me get through my math classes in high school. Even if someone was stressed or having a bad day, his classroom was always open and he kind of worked as a guidance counselor too. He allowed students to have a safe space to go to talk about whatever they need or just to be alone. I remember many times my friends and I had gone into his class before a test or on a bad day just to cry and it always made us feel better to have somewhere to go with someone who cared. I also remember people who would sit in his classroom just to eat lunch because the cafeteria caused them anxiety and he understood that, unlike most teachers who look up from their room and leave during lunch. Trust The example I thought of right away for an educator showing trust was from a teacher I had in either grade 6 or 7. This teacher had us participate in something called ‘Genius Hour’. Genius hour was a student-directed learning that was not teacher-led. We were given the opportunity to pick something that we as individuals wanted to learn then were given an hour every week (or every few days) to learn about the topic we picked (research, trials, practice, etc.). By the end of the learning sessions that we self-directed we got to present what topic we taught yourself and became a genius on! My teacher embodied openness by giving no limit or guideline to what we wanted to learn which I think is a great example of her showing trust to us as students. She trusted us to pick something worth learning and to be dedicated to that for all the genius hour periods. The projects at the end turned out amazing and all so different, as elementary students everything is very guided, and students always follow something specific made by the educators, so this project was really fun and important to all of us. I know the ethical standard of trust in teaching is more for students to be trusting in the teacher, but I think that trust goes both ways. We, as students, could put trust into her because she put trust into us. 2. Please share one aspect of the Ethical Standards that you found surprising or interesting. I obviously think that all the standards should be practiced by teachers, so it is not surprising that they are the standards. I think that the standard I feel most interested in is respect because through my experience as a student I think that it is the most lacking. This is a bit surprising to think because respect is such a main standard everyone should have especially teachers. As I explained above in my example, no teacher over the 4 years of high school would pronounce my friends’ name properly except for our visual arts teacher. This shows that the respect in these
Tally Wilkinson Sept. 22/23 teachers were lacking, they didn’t take the time to remember pronunciation even when corrected. She was very quiet and shy and would not speak up for herself, but our art teacher took time to make sure he was addressing people properly and stuck to that. All other teachers didn’t take this time creating a lack of respect for something very basic for all her high school years. I think that there are other aspects of respect that some teachers also lack. Some teachers do not honour human decency, emotional wellness, or cognitive development in students. Some examples of lack of human decency and emotional wellness are teachers not allowing students to leave to go to the washroom, calling on students when it is clear they do not want to be called on, embarrassing students (specifically getting students in trouble as a show to the other students or sharing students’ work as bad examples), and favoring students. Some teachers also do not honour students’ cognitive development, for example, teachers not answering questions, doing the bare minimum, not engaging the students, not considering different learning styles, not caring about students learning, not helping or providing resources for help to students, etc. This would affect cognitive development in students therefore seen as a lack of respect to students.
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