INTASC 9

The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the
effects of his/her choices and actions on others (students, parents,
and other professionals in the learning community) and who actively
seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.

*Reflective Statement*

To me this standard means that the teacher must be willing and able to reflect on the impact that they have had on other people, good and bad, and be willing to grow from their experiences.  I believe that this is an important standard because people must learn from their mistakes in order to succeed in the future. Teachers must be willing to admit when they have done wrong and learn from their own examples. However they should also realise when they have made good decisions and impacted people's lives for the better and try their best to be able to help other people in the future.

*Revised Reflective Statement - Fall 2008*

Education and education reform is ever changing, growing, expanding.  In order to stay in the loop and keep up to date on the different teaching strategies it is imperative for teachers to attend in service days, attend teaching conferences, and read articles on new teaching strategies.  If teachers do not continue with their own education in their content area as well as in the field of education it will be impossible for them to stay up to date on the newest teaching strategies and techniques.  Teachers must also be willing to grow from the experiences that they have everyday inside and out of the classroom.  By continually evaluating the impact that their decisions and actions have on their students, community, and peers teachers can learn and grow from the mistakes as well as their sucesses.  It takes a person truely willing to growing as an individual and professional to admit when they are wrong and make a mistake, but it is just as important to learn from that mistake as it is to admit to it.  It is also important to look at the sucesses and evaluate what made them sucesses and how to replicate those sucesses in other areas.

*My Personal Experience*

Many people have had important impacts on my life. Some of them were teachers, some of them were coaches, and some of them were simply friends. I can think of one particular experience where one of my teachers tried to help me with my photography for an entire year. I was trying very hard and yet I could never seem to make a single photo come out right but this teacher stood by my side for the entire frustrating year, always encouraging me and always trying to help me. My second year in his class all of his teaching and all of his encouragement paid off, that and the fact that I learned how to turn the camera on. I finally started printing good pictures but in the end it was because I didn't give up. I could have given in to my discouragement and not taken the class the second year but because of my teacher and his continual encouragement I didn't give up on myself and photography is now one of my favorite activities.

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