Knowledge and Skills of Professional Teaching Project

In our discussions, one of the issues we have raised is that of dispositions and what that might mean/should mean to a teacher operating in a professional culture.  Below is a list of dispositions from Charlotte Danielson’s text:  Danielson, C.  (2006).  Teacher leadership that strengthens professional practice. Alexandria,
VA:  ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development).

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Greetings everyone!  Good to see you all yesterday and Ellen, we missed you.  Also, Ann and Chip, please continue to feel welcome to participate through our online forum.  Both of you were mentioned wistfully yesterday.

The notes from our meeting this week are now posted here: http://jamesliou.com/KSPT/subcommittee-dates-and-notes/

Please pay particular attention to the action steps near [...]

Collaboration drill down (sub-task):
• Open and honest
• effective communication
• sharing
• feedback
• goal-setting
• empathy
• support/nurturing
• action-orientation
• self-regulation
• engagement
• shared learning,

Collaborative teacher relationships are characterized by the following behaviors:

Open and honest communication requires that teachers:
• Accept responsibility for their own actions
• Request feedback on how well the team is working and offer honest feedback to others to help support improvement
• Speak honestly and openly about issues affecting their own success [...]

Subcategories of Professional Culture: Shared Values – “Responsibility”

I understand our working stance to be that “Shared Values” enables/leads to the beliefs and behaviors that will comprise a positive professional culture. Once we have identified a ‘shared value” considered essential for a positive professional culture, we drilled down to the “sub-task” elements and goals that [...]

Happy New Year everyone!

Chip wanted me to post a copy of the following document for everyone to look over. He mentioned that this might be the kind of piece that can guide our thinking (whether in its accessible language or its form), or possibly serve as some kind of narrative template for a preamble [...]

SHARED VALUE: RESPONSIBILITY

Each educational professional has the responsibility to:
o Consistently reflect on one’s own practice
o Engage in professional dialogue with colleagues
o Collaborate with colleagues to ensure best practice
o Participate in lifelong learning opportunities
o Keep current on new practices and emerging technologies and incorporate them into teaching
o Assist new teachers in becoming acclimated to the profession
o [...]

hi all,

Mary Ann, I’m copy/pasting your ‘drill down’ example below so other committee members can respond and comment accordingly.

‘Integrity’/ethical framework’ as a shared value to drill down to subtask level.

Integrity/ethical framework drill down:
• Police Self/self regulation
• Police others (report abuses)
• Honest
• Fair
• Maintains confidentiality
• Protect safety and health of students
• Protect and bolster students’ emotional well being (self [...]