How to obtain a teaching job & keep it!

Knowing & Actualizing the Professional Standards

Joseph Vespignani, Principal , Calabro School, Hoboken Public Schools

Scott Cascone, Ed.D., Principal, Westwood Jr./Sr. High School

Part I: Building your Professional Portfolio

5 steps to make yourself more competitive

1. Professional NetworkingCreate “professional portfolio”

-Take a professional profile photo-Follow relevant groups and influencers-Post and comment on interesting articles-Build your professional contacts

2. Google and Google +-Google Plus: Professional Networking Tool-Build capacity for using Google Drive, Apps and Classroom-Form a Google Classroom with professional acquaintances and use as a professional, digital portfolio.

3. Professional AssociationsJoin technology associations, and those related to your subject area. Attend and even present at local,state, and national conferences.Subscribe to publications

4. Stay Professionally Engaged

Keep your foot in teaching practice -Volunteer -Go Abroad-Coach -Substitute/Paraprofessionals

5. Social Media: Promise & Peril -Create a professional handle-Follow trendsetters, organizations & colleagues.

-Edutopia, Google Apps-Step outside of education

-Stanford Business, MIT Sloan Institute-Curate your digital footprint

Part II: ProfessionalismThe professional standards for educators, know them, be them, success will come.

Professionalism •InTASC Standards 9-11: Professional Responsibility

•Describe the performances, knowledge, and dispositions that teachers need

to be effective in supporting college and career readiness for all students;

•Outline the principles of teaching practice that cut across all subject areas

and grade levels and are necessary to improve student achievement; and

•Serve as the common foundation for pre-service teacher education,

certification, induction and mentoring, educator evaluation, and professional

development.

Standard Nine:Professional Learning•Professional learning aligned with a teacher’s needs as a

growing professional, using feedback from evaluations, data on

learner performance, and school-wide and district-wide

priorities.

•Role of teacher as a learner continuously seeking opportunities

to improve practice, drawing upon current education policy and

research as sources of reflection.

Standard Ten: Leadership and Collaboration

•Collaborate with other school professionals to plan

and facilitate learning.

•Development of skills in collaborative interaction

appropriate for both face to face and virtual

contexts.

Standard Eleven: Ethical Practice

•Fostering a school environment that protects

students from sexually, physically, verbally, or

emotionally harassing behavior.

•Collaboration with colleagues and parents to

provide a safe and emotionally protective learning

environment .

Professionalism

•Conduct

•Dress

•Attendance

•Stress Management