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 your responses brief. Your profile should be no more than 2 – 2.5 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 other sites like this one.
The due date for this task is Monday, 26 September 2011. This is a very firm deadline, as Dave and I will need to share the profile with your Sponsor Teacher and School Principals while we finalize the placements in early October.
Please email a copy of your completed TC Profile to us both (lholbrook@sd43.bc.ca & dunnigan@mail.ubc.ca). We’ll take care of printing them off.
If you have questions, please comment on this post or email one of us directly.
Cheers,
Lawrence