Standard #9: Professional Learning and

Ethical Practice.
The teacher engages in ongoing professional learning and uses evidence
to continually evaluate his/her practice, particularly the effects of his/her
choices and actions on others (learners, families, other professionals, and
the community), and adapts practice to meet the needs of each learner.

Narrative:
In my Oklahoma Field Immersion trip,
I had the opportunity to tutor a child
at a foster home for kids who have
Native American heritage. We lived
at this foster home for two weeks and
had a placement in the schools the
children were at. The kid I was
tutoring was very active and liked to
play with the other kids from the
home. It was hard for him to sit down
and do his school work. He had not Reflection:
turned in many assignments, so I In education, it is important to know
helped him catch up on the missing who you are teaching. In this
assignments. During our tutoring example, my tutee enjoyed being
session, I used playing basketball as active and playing basketball. Using
motivation to work on the that as motivation proved to be an
assignments. This helped him stay effective way for him to actually sit
focused on the assignments and give down and work on his school work. I
him something to work for. was able to get him caught up on his
missing assignments and prepare
him for his next unit test. He ended
up doing pretty well with a C on the
test which is an improvement from
his last test.