Characteristics of a Novice Teacher 2

Characteristic three of a novice teacher recognizes that teaching is a moral, professional, and ethical enterprise. Moral and ethical are terms that refer to those value choices concerning actions and attitudes that affect more than one person. I believe that being an ethical teacher is one who demonstrates a professional demeanor and cares to take responsibility for everyone involved in the classroom. An artifact I could use to portray my own professional and ethical enterprise would be my educational philosophy that I wrote in EDUC 400. This paper emphasized my beliefs on what teaching is, along with the responsibilities of teachers for their actions. This paper shows my understanding of the teachers' role and responsibilities in and out of the classroom.
Characteristic five of a novice teacher recognizes that teachers should have in-depth knowledge of pedagogy. In-depth knowledge of pedagogy includes and understanding of human development and learning theories along with an awareness of various educational philosophies. A great artifact that I could use to represent this characteristic would be my math 430 whole group lesson that I wrote on double-digit multplication. This lesson had a differentiated assessment for all learners and the students were able to do a variety of different activities throughout the entire lesson. Therefore, the activities planned for this lesson were developmentally appropriate for students.