Standard 1
Educators value and care for students and act in their best interests:
- demonstrates fostering the emotional, esthetic, intellectual, physical, social and vocational development of students
- providing emotional and physical safety of all students
- treats students with respect and dignity
- demonstrates respect for diversity
- respects confidentiality unless disclosure is required by law
- demonstrates understanding that educators do not abuse or exploit students or minors for personal, sexual, ideological, material or other advantage
"I hope that someday we will learn the terrible cost we all pay when we ignore or mismanage those people in society who most need our help."-The Hon. Judge Sandra Hamilton, Provincial Court of Alberta, Canada
"If caring matters as much as we think it does, it has to be something much more than a bundle of strong feelings. It has to be a way of being." Danford & Smith, 2005
“When I do not know myself, I cannot know who my students are. I will see them through a glass darkly, in the shadows of my own unexamined life-and when I cannot see them clearly, I cannot teach them well.” – Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways."
Howard Gardner (in Siegel & Shaughnessy, 1994
Evidence to Support Standard- Art Collage Introduction
Reflection to Support Evidence- hyperlink to reflective statement
Evidence to Support Standard- Cilaire Practicum Report
Reflection to Support Evidence- hyperlink to reflective statement