Ethical Standard of Care
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1. Define the OCT Concept chosen and the relationship to the artifact
The artifact that I selected for the Care section outlines "10 Easy Ways to Show Students You Care". As defined by the OCT, Care comprises of "The ethical standard of Care includes compassion, acceptance, interest and insight for developing students' potential. Members express their commitment to students' well-being and learning through positive influence, professional judgement and empathy in practice" (OCT, 2015).
2. Outline why the resource informs your understanding of the OCT Standards of Professional Practice
My curated resource that I identify exemplifies the importance of demonstrating to your students that you care about them in order to foster a positive, safe learning environment. Additionally, the external academic resource that I selected is quite honestly one of the best articles I have read in a long time, especially as a new Grade 8 teacher. This article, entitled A Middle School Dilemma: Dealing with "I Don't Care" by F. Walsh, 2006, very explicitly relates to my curated resource as they provide amazing solutions for implementing and demonstrating care in the classroom. Walsh discusses the importance of getting to know your students (i.e. taking inventory of personal data, how students learn, and what can students do in order to discover who they are), take time to talk to your students, and don't take antagonism personally. This resource perfectly parallels my curated resource as they both discuss ways in which to build care in the classroom and clearly showing your students that you care.
The artifact that I selected for the Care section outlines "10 Easy Ways to Show Students You Care". As defined by the OCT, Care comprises of "The ethical standard of Care includes compassion, acceptance, interest and insight for developing students' potential. Members express their commitment to students' well-being and learning through positive influence, professional judgement and empathy in practice" (OCT, 2015).
2. Outline why the resource informs your understanding of the OCT Standards of Professional Practice
My curated resource that I identify exemplifies the importance of demonstrating to your students that you care about them in order to foster a positive, safe learning environment. Additionally, the external academic resource that I selected is quite honestly one of the best articles I have read in a long time, especially as a new Grade 8 teacher. This article, entitled A Middle School Dilemma: Dealing with "I Don't Care" by F. Walsh, 2006, very explicitly relates to my curated resource as they provide amazing solutions for implementing and demonstrating care in the classroom. Walsh discusses the importance of getting to know your students (i.e. taking inventory of personal data, how students learn, and what can students do in order to discover who they are), take time to talk to your students, and don't take antagonism personally. This resource perfectly parallels my curated resource as they both discuss ways in which to build care in the classroom and clearly showing your students that you care.
3. Identify the level(s) of reflection you engage/will engage in to use this in the classroom.
Walsh, 2006 and my curated resource helped me to really reflect on all four levels of reflection, which are surface, pedagogical, critical and self-reflexive. I believe it is important to focus on really demonstrating to your students that you care about them through strategies and methods to reach this goal, such as the ones listed in my curated resource. But I believe it goes deeper than this, as pedagogical reflection is absolutely necessary, as demonstrated by my academic resource. It is important to reflect on educational goals and connect them to theory to explicitly demonstrate to your students that you care about them. Additionally, critical reflection is necessary as I need to reflect on the ethical and moral implications of classroom practices for care to be demonstrated. For example, differentiated treatment of my students cannot happen as students will believe that some are valued more than others as individuals, and this is not the case. Finally, I will need to engage in self-reflexivity as I need to reflect on my own belief systems to determine why this is so key for me as an educator to instill in my students.
References
BrainWaves Instruction (2015). What I Know For Sure About Learning. Blog. Retrieved http://brainwavesinstruction.blogspot.ca/2015/04/what-i-know-for-sure-about-learning.html
OCT (2015). Ethical Standards of Professional Practice. Retrieved From http://www.oct.ca/public/professional-standards/ethical-standards
Walsh, F. (2006). A Middle School Dilemma: Dealing with "I Don't Care". American Secondary Education 35(1): 5-15.
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