Educators contribute to the profession.

I have acted as a moral support for many of my colleagues during this past practicum, and I will continue to do so. I believe that mental health and emotional support is an integral part of ensuring our future sanity and happiness as educators in a profession that can be mentally and emotionally taxing.

In my last practicum, there are many materials that I created in order to contribute to the profession. I have given these to my coaching teacher, and I have plans in the future to build a website with these materials for future music teachers to make use of as well as to keep all my materials organized. I have also engaged in staff meetings in sharing what methods of assessment my coaching teacher and I are currently engaging in, as well as providing another teacher with a contact who is strong in reflexive practice, storytelling, and the research behind it. I believe strongly in the free sharing of ideas and materials in order to support my colleagues.