How to obtain a teaching job & keep it!
Knowing & Actualizing the Professional Standards
Joseph Vespignani, Principal , Calabro School, Hoboken Public Schools
Scott Cascone, Ed.D., Principal, Westwood Jr./Sr. High School
Part I: Building your Professional Portfolio
5 steps to make yourself more competitive
1. Professional NetworkingCreate “professional portfolio”
-Take a professional profile photo-Follow relevant groups and influencers-Post and comment on interesting articles-Build your professional contacts
2. Google and Google +-Google Plus: Professional Networking Tool-Build capacity for using Google Drive, Apps and Classroom-Form a Google Classroom with professional acquaintances and use as a professional, digital portfolio.
3. Professional AssociationsJoin technology associations, and those related to your subject area. Attend and even present at local,state, and national conferences.Subscribe to publications
4. Stay Professionally Engaged
Keep your foot in teaching practice -Volunteer -Go Abroad-Coach -Substitute/Paraprofessionals
5. Social Media: Promise & Peril -Create a professional handle-Follow trendsetters, organizations & colleagues.
-Edutopia, Google Apps-Step outside of education
-Stanford Business, MIT Sloan Institute-Curate your digital footprint
Part II: ProfessionalismThe professional standards for educators, know them, be them, success will come.
Professionalism •InTASC Standards 9-11: Professional Responsibility
•Describe the performances, knowledge, and dispositions that teachers need
to be effective in supporting college and career readiness for all students;
•Outline the principles of teaching practice that cut across all subject areas
and grade levels and are necessary to improve student achievement; and
•Serve as the common foundation for pre-service teacher education,
certification, induction and mentoring, educator evaluation, and professional
development.
Standard Nine:Professional Learning•Professional learning aligned with a teacher’s needs as a
growing professional, using feedback from evaluations, data on
learner performance, and school-wide and district-wide
priorities.
•Role of teacher as a learner continuously seeking opportunities
to improve practice, drawing upon current education policy and
research as sources of reflection.
Standard Ten: Leadership and Collaboration
•Collaborate with other school professionals to plan
and facilitate learning.
•Development of skills in collaborative interaction
appropriate for both face to face and virtual
contexts.
Standard Eleven: Ethical Practice
•Fostering a school environment that protects
students from sexually, physically, verbally, or
emotionally harassing behavior.
•Collaboration with colleagues and parents to
provide a safe and emotionally protective learning
environment .
Professionalism
•Conduct
•Dress
•Attendance
•Stress Management