Emily Weigand

Professor Suk

EDUC 230-02 Education Field Experience

Fall 2021

Rationale Statement- Standard #11

Standard #11 Ethical Practice

Teachers shall act in accordance with legal and ethical responsibilities and shall use integrity and

fairness to promote the success of all students (New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers

Alignment with InTASC, 2014, p. 14).

Artifact: Observation report 5- Instruction

Date of completion: December 2021

Course completed in: EDUC 230-02 Education field experience

Rationale Statement:

The artifact that I am using for this rationale statement is observation report #5 from my live

field experience in a private preschool classroom. The topic of this observation report is

instruction, and it starts off with a discussion my teacher and I had about how she plans for

lessons. It then goes into the data section where I summarized a lesson I observed while in the

classroom. This artifact relates to standard 11.iii.3 “the teacher recognizes, respects, and upholds

the dignity and worth of students as individual human beings, and therefore dealing with them

justly and considerately” (New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers Alignment with

InTASC, 2014, p. 15). This observation report relates to this standard because my cooperating
teacher does her best to make sure her lessons are flexible and can support every single student

in her class.

When creating this artifact, I used a combination of my notes as well as talking to my

cooperating teacher. I made sure to always take notes whenever the teacher was teaching a

lesson, so I just looked back at my notebook to fill out the data section. As for the pre-

observation section, I had a conversation with my teacher about her techniques when lesson

planning.

This observation report can be beneficial to my future teacher self because I now have an idea of

what to expect when planning lessons. According to my teacher, it is very useful to communicate

with colleagues when lesson planning, especially when they teach the same grade level. Even if

it is just to bounce ideas off of each other, I can get a feel for what a lesson plan should consist of

and whether or not my idea needs tweaking.

References:

New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers for Teachers alignment with InTASC. (2014,

May 5). The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey. Retrieved October 4, 2021, from

https://www.state.nj.us/education/profdev/requirements/standards/docs/ProfStandardsforTeacher

sAlignmentwithInTASC.pdf