Standard 7 - Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre
7.1.1 - Meet professional ethics and responsibilities.
7.4.1 - Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities.
The following emails demonstrate how I have engaged professionally with members of the community to organise, plan and execute a excursion for a Primary Human and its Environment unit assignment. My role was to represent Western Sydney University while being professional, engaging in their educational activities and broadening my future teaching practices. The education centre provided us with a risk assessment for the excursion. By reading through the assessment, demonstrates my understanding of the code of ethics and the responsibilities of a teacher to students.
7.1.1 - Meet professional ethics and responsibilities.
7.4.1 - Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities.
The following emails demonstrate how I have engaged professionally with members of the community to organise, plan and execute a excursion for a Primary Human and its Environment unit assignment. My role was to represent Western Sydney University while being professional, engaging in their educational activities and broadening my future teaching practices. The education centre provided us with a risk assessment for the excursion. By reading through the assessment, demonstrates my understanding of the code of ethics and the responsibilities of a teacher to students.
Conversations through emails between pre-service teachers and member of the Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre to organise an excursion for an assessment.
The risk assessment supplied by the education centre on the excursion of the Minnamurra Rainforest.
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Reflection
Throughout my experience in Master of Teaching (Primary) course, I have had the opportunity to engage with outside community members of the Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre in completing an assignment with fellow pre-service teachers. Although I did not meet this member, due to working availabilities and school holidays, I engaged in conversation with them through email. Through using formal language, not only maintains Western Sydney University professional identity but my own as a pre-service teacher and member of the public, while meeting the requirements of the Code of Conduct; electronic communication (NSW Department of Education, 2016). This aligns with standard 7.4.1 as I have engaged with a professional from other teaching network within the community (AISTL, 2011).
As an excursion requires a risk assessment, the education centre kindly provided us with a ‘fill in’ risk assessment for the teachers. I have great knowledge of risk assessments through my own job but gained greater knowledge of how they apply to schools. The risk assessment aligns with ‘Duty of Care’ from the Code of Conduct, as every teacher/supervisor has the responsibility of providing reasonable care to all students, colleagues, and members of the public (NSW Department of Education, 2016) and the standard 7.1.1 of meeting professional ethics and engaging with professional responsibilities (AISTL, 2011). Although I did not fill out the risk assessment (as it was not required), I believe I have an adequate understanding of what is required to complete one through research and completing ones for my job.
Overall, I have not had much experience in apply standard 7 to my professional practice, but through completing assessments, I have gained an understanding of what is required to create and maintain my professional identity for my future teaching practices through this small professional interaction with the Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre.
References
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. (2011). Australian
Professional Standards for Teachers (Publication No. P1-28). Retrieved from https://www.aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-source/national-policy-framework/australian-professional-standards- for-teachers.pdf?sfvrsn=5800f33c_64
NSW Department of Education. (2016). The Code of Conduct. Retrieved May
24, 2020 from https://policies.education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/associated-documents/code-of-conduct- procedures.pdf
Throughout my experience in Master of Teaching (Primary) course, I have had the opportunity to engage with outside community members of the Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre in completing an assignment with fellow pre-service teachers. Although I did not meet this member, due to working availabilities and school holidays, I engaged in conversation with them through email. Through using formal language, not only maintains Western Sydney University professional identity but my own as a pre-service teacher and member of the public, while meeting the requirements of the Code of Conduct; electronic communication (NSW Department of Education, 2016). This aligns with standard 7.4.1 as I have engaged with a professional from other teaching network within the community (AISTL, 2011).
As an excursion requires a risk assessment, the education centre kindly provided us with a ‘fill in’ risk assessment for the teachers. I have great knowledge of risk assessments through my own job but gained greater knowledge of how they apply to schools. The risk assessment aligns with ‘Duty of Care’ from the Code of Conduct, as every teacher/supervisor has the responsibility of providing reasonable care to all students, colleagues, and members of the public (NSW Department of Education, 2016) and the standard 7.1.1 of meeting professional ethics and engaging with professional responsibilities (AISTL, 2011). Although I did not fill out the risk assessment (as it was not required), I believe I have an adequate understanding of what is required to complete one through research and completing ones for my job.
Overall, I have not had much experience in apply standard 7 to my professional practice, but through completing assessments, I have gained an understanding of what is required to create and maintain my professional identity for my future teaching practices through this small professional interaction with the Minnamurra Rainforest Education Centre.
References
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. (2011). Australian
Professional Standards for Teachers (Publication No. P1-28). Retrieved from https://www.aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-source/national-policy-framework/australian-professional-standards- for-teachers.pdf?sfvrsn=5800f33c_64
NSW Department of Education. (2016). The Code of Conduct. Retrieved May
24, 2020 from https://policies.education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/associated-documents/code-of-conduct- procedures.pdf