InTASC Standard #10: Learner Development

Standard 10: Leadership and Collaboration—The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession (InTASC 2013).

Brief Description of Evidence:

During the Spring semester of 2023, in my EDUC 230 The Exceptional Child class, a few of my classmates and I held  simulated parent-teacher conferences for a student that needs an IEP. At the first conference we discussed the concerns that the student’s parents had and went over possible solutions. After the conference we then created an IEP for this student and held a second simulated parent-teacher conference going over the contents of this student’s IEP.

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Analysis of What I Learned:

Doing the simulated parent-teacher conference will help me prepare for future conferences I will have as an educator. This experience also allowed me to collaborate with my peers and come up with solutions that will best support this student. This conference taught me about the importance of collaboration among parents, teachers, and other school professionals. I learned that it isn’t just the Special Education Teacher that writes the IEP, instead, the Admin, General Education Teacher, parents, and even sometimes teacher aids are involved. My classmates and I during the last parent-teacher conference had to work with the student’s parents to come up with solutions to help the student succeed. All of this goes along with Joyce Epstien’s theory of the importance of incorporating family, school, and the community in order to best support the child (Organizing Engagement, 2019). I learned and researched the procedural safeguards, parental rights, and the components of an IEP.

 

How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard:

I am able to demonstrate my competence for InTASC Standard #10 because this simulated conference allowed me the opportunity to take responsibility for student learning by collaborating with colleagues, families, and other school professionals. For this simulated conference, I communicated with the child’s parents about their concerns for their child in second grade. I was able to provide different in-class and outside of class resources for the child’s parents. This experience allowed me as a future educator to improve my leadership role in and out of the classroom. This will also prepare me for future parent-teacher conferences I will have as an educator.