Competency Six—Participate to Actively in the Profession

There are many facets to education, and it is important that teachers are fully engaged in each of them.
As an instructor in a pull-out program, it is important for me to fully participate in instruction, assessment,
reflection, and collaboration with others as it relates to student achievement or improvement of practice
within the school setting.
Identify Communities of Practice Within Discipline and Participate Within These
Communities According to the Ethical Standards of the Discipline
The artifact that I feel best shows my ability to identify communities of practice within the discipline
of teaching emergent bilingual students is the class interaction and assessment that I did for EDCI 530,
Teaching English Language Learners. In this paper, I summarized the observations and formal assessments
that I did with one particular student. Although I had learned to use the assessments several years ago when
I took classes at Purdue to become a Literacy Coach, it was interesting to learn to look at them differently
knowing that the needs of the student I assessed were different because she was a newcomer student who
had only been in the country for a few weeks. I was able to share results of her assessments with her
classroom teacher so that the teachers would have more information to help guide her instruction. It was
also helpful to learn what kinds of information the student knew in her native language so we could continue
to build on her background knowledge. By conducting the assessments, I learned that the student uses the
information in the picture to help her comprehend more, and I also learned that she can comprehend and talk
about information in the stories she reads. This artifact relates to the ethical standards of the discipline
because it shows that I go about gathering information using well-known assessments in appropriate ways to
guide instruction.