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Exploring the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession through Anishinaabe Art
ONTARIO COLLEGE OF TEACHERS
Exploring the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession through Anishinaabe Art is a teacher education resource designed to support inquiry into the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession.
The Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession provide a framework of principles that describe the professional knowledge, skills, values and practices inherent within the lived experiences of members of the Ontario teaching profession.
Educators are invited to reflect on the five standards of practice: Commitment to Students and Student Learning, Leadership in Learning Communities, Ongoing Professional Learning, Professional Knowledge and Professional Practice through the artistic representations included within this document.
Initial teacher education and Additional Qualifications (AQ) courses are important professional contexts for deepening under- standing and exploration of the professional knowledge, skills, dispositions and practices
described in the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession. This resource is intended to support conversations regarding professional practice using the artistic representations of the standards that occur within these teacher education contexts. This standards-based resource may also help to support the mean- ingful inclusion of Anishinaabe culture, history and worldview within teacher education and professional practice. In addition, it may be used in conjunction with the standards-based resource, Exploring the Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession through Annishnaabe Art, which can be found on the College website at "http://www.oct.ca/resources"
These artistic interpretations and expres- sions of the standards may also help to deepen educators’ understanding of the important principles that guide professional practice.
It is hoped that this resource will facilitate deep professional inquiry, reflection and dialogue into the many rich concepts embedded within the teaching profession’s standards of practice.
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