Showcase: Artifact 1
1. Identify at least two elements of TPE Standard 6 (Developing as a Professional Educator) that are relevant to the assignment/artifact that you have chosen. TPE 6: Developing as a Professional Educator / Element 2. Recognize their own values and implicit and explicit biases, the ways in which these values and implicit and explicit biases may positively and negatively affect teaching and learning, and work to mitigate any negative impact on the teaching and learning of students. They exhibit positive dispositions of caring, support, acceptance, and fairness toward all students and families, as well as toward their colleagues. Explicit and implicit biases influence our day to day lives. An example that comes to mind while teaching last year were two boys who were equally disruptive in class. Boy 1 most always came to school looking as if he rolled out of bed. His hair was not fixed, he had holes in his clothes, sometimes dirty ar...