Welcome to EPE 489

1. Welcome to EPE 489 Log Book Sharing Critical Incidents Expectations of Beginning Teachers Intention Two Review

2. Critical incident Making meaning from ‘what happens’

3. Expectations of Beginning Teachers What beginning teachers expect to gain from the teaching profession: • Interpersonal-affective Support– those types of interpersonal interactions with significant others which had the effect of providing a positive emotional up-lift that in ways heightened their own sense of purpose and self-mage. • Acquire Recognition – acknowledgment, appreciation, and understanding through communicating with, and the involvement of others . . .

4. Expectations of Beginning Teachers What beginning teachers expect to gainfrom the teaching profession: • Professional-affective Support – those types of interpersonal interactions with significant others that were professional in nature which provided beginning teachers with a feeling of shared responsibility, of community and camaraderie • Acquire Resources – school resources, shared materials, curricula . . . • Acquire Remuneration – money, preparation time, holidays . . .

5. Expectations of Beginning Teachers What beginning teachers expect to gain from the teaching profession: • Organizational Support – in what and how to teach, in working with children and parents, and in organizational matters. • Acquire Role Information – for role adjustment and development . . . • Acquire Feedback – supervision, monitoring, planning . . . • Acquire Assessment – evaluation, judgement . . .

6. Expectations of Beginning Teachers What beginning teachers expect to give to the teaching profession: • Personal-Professional Effort – in preparing materials for teaching, in teaching children, in extra-curricular activities, and in thinking about teaching. • Giving Ideas and Being Innovative – programs, classroom arrangements . . . • Giving to the Children – caring, assisting, leading . . . • Giving to the School Organization – implementing school policy, promoting school initiatives, involvement . . . • Giving of One’s Self – emotion, stamina . . .

7. How do these expectations fit? http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

8. Emotional Current Reality Current Reality Vision Vision TENSION Creative Creative and Emotional TensionWhat are your Personal/Professional Goals

9. Personal/Professional Experiences Intention Two • What did you do that seemed to work? • What planning had to take place? • Are these ‘one-off’ experiences? • What were the benefits? • Where do you go from here? A Template will reflect these elements . . . Is it possible to complete this task in one page?

10. Next Experience Echo Valley Experience Leaving the Education Building at 7:15 a.m.