Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Domain F Artifacts
Taylor Martinez
TED 690
National University
June 2019
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Abstract
Teaching Performance Expectations are designed to outline a set of skills and expectations for
teachers. It acts as a road map for what teachers need to be doing in order to continue to develop
their professional skills. The Domain that I will be focusing on in this paper is Domain F:
observe, go to professional growth opportunities, and reflecting on my own teaching. I also plan
to utilize feedback from other teachers, administration, as well as my own students. Included in
this paper are artifacts that act as evidence for my professional growth in my teaching.
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Literature Review
My first artifact is a literature review by Zaretta Hammond, she wrote a book called
Culturally Responsive and the Brain. I read an excerpt from this book and believe that she gives
great insight about how teachers can become better in the classroom to sure diverse students.
Hammond begins to unpack the tough question on why many of our underachieving students are
English Learners, students of color, or students who come from homes with low financial
standing. Hammond talks about how it is our jobs as teachers to be culturally responsive to
students so that we can help accelerate there learning and make sure that they have every
opportunity to meet standards (Hammond, p.32). I felt that this piece of literature went nicely
with Domain F because it is about improving teaching practices and learning how to apply new
strategies. After reading this piece it has only reinforced to me that we as teachers need to learn
how to embrace all of our students differences and by doing that we can show our students that
they also have a lot in common in well. Acceptance in the classroom is a major component to
Professional Development
Being a first year teacher I learned all about professional development days. These days
occur on the day of the week that your students get out early, for my school it was Thursday.
These days offer a variety of topics all of which will help teachers improve in s variety of ways.
Once a month on these days you met with your professional learning community, the teachers
who were in this community were those of like subject. My community was made up of PE
teachers, health teachers, and adaptive PE teachers. I really enjoyed these meetings because it
allowed all of us to get ideas on how to improve our instructional strategies or classroom
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management skills. As a new teachers I made sure I utilized those days so that I could take new
The third artifact that I felt would go well with Domain F was a system put into place called
SPG. This system is what my district uses to evaluate teachers every two years. During your two
years you get a site manger who helps you create professional goals based on your subject matter
and concentration. The process is meant to be reflective, and to help you collect evidence to add
to your professional portfolio. Many of times you will be observed and then after the observation
there is a reflective conversation on what you can do better and strategies that you can integrate
References
San Juan Unified School District. (2019). Systems of Professional Growth. https://
www.sanjuan.edu/domain/7227