Model+Professional+Behavior

**Dimension of Effective Teaching:** Model Professional Behavior || **Description:** Models professional behavior by exemplifying job responsibilities, district policies, and expectations for working in a diverse and sometimes sensitive work environment. || **Successes:** I have successfully helped create a faculty concern process, have translated English/Spanish as needed for teachers and parents, and serve on the school Governing Board, the finance committee and the hiring committee. |||| **Challenges:** I started to write grants for the school as part of my role on the finance committee, but there are only so many hours in a day. || **Area for Growth:** I would like to assume a leadership role in establishing yearly school goals and personal faculty goals, which we reflect upon and revisit at the middle and end of the year. || **Artifacts:** I am proud of my articles in the AFT Advocate paper that reflect on my role in the Boston Teachers Union School, linked to from the e-portfolio’s Professional Experience page. |||| **Resources:** To better meet my professional expectations of grading students with IEPs and 504 Plans, I found this web-based resource to be helpful: Rules for Grading Students with IEP’s and 504 Plans: [|http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu/resources/addl_info/-Grading_Students_with_699DB.doc] || **Reflection:** I chose these articles as artifacts because they exemplify the role of teacher participation in a school. Just as we believe that students are more engaged and more successful when they play an authentic role in shaping their learning, teaches are more engaged and more successful when they plan an authentic role in shaping their school. || **Future Learning Goals:** I would like to learn more about district-wide policies to better uphold and support them. For instance, in a previous reflection I wondered about the progress being made on the policy to shrink the achievement gap. ||