TCs:
Use the link below to download a template for your Teacher Candidate profile. By reading your answers to these questions, your School Advisor and School Principals will get to know you before you’re in the school and join the staff.
Please answer the questions thoughtfully but keep it brief. Your profile should be no more than 2 pages.
In addition to the questions, there is space at the top of the profile for:
- your contact information
- a recent photo (a head shot is best)
- a “Short Quote That Captures An Important Belief You Hold About Education”. I’ve pasted a random sampling of quotes chosen by TCs in previous years:
- “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being” – Goethe
- “If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail!”
- “The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another” – Marva Collins
- “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple” – Amos Bronson Alcott
Here’s a link to a site with quotes about teachers and teaching. I’m sure there are many others.
The due date for this task is Friday, 2 October. This is a very firm deadline, as Shep and I will need to share your profile with your Sponsor Teacher and School Principals on Tuesday, 6 October. Please email a copy of your completed TC Profile to both Shep (shep.alexander@ubc.ca) and I (lholbrook@sd43.bc.ca).
We were going to introduce this task in Monday’s sPortfolio seminar but, in the end, we decided to give you a head start on it by sending it out to you now via email. You can find this information and the template on the blog, too.
If you have questions, please email Shep or I.
Cheers,
Lawrence