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Standard Eleven | Professional Conduct

**Evaluations** For this artifact, I have included several evaluations from cooperating teachers and my supervisor. The evaluations discuss interactions with students, my ability to plan lessons, my preparedness, and overall professionalism. I have chosen these evaluations because they not only illustrate positive moments in my teaching experiences, but also include ways in which I need to improve.

Professionalism is very important. While it is easy to be a friend to your students and engage in less form discussions, there must be also be structure to discussions to enhance critical thinking skills and build a positive learning environment for students. If I want to maintain those skills and environment, I need to focus on the individual needs of students and the class as a whole in order to foster development. The relationship that I have with my classes and individual students is important, but so is the relationships that the students are able to build among one another. Animosity between any students in my class has the potential to derail learning and I have to make sure that my student show each other respect in the classroom.

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