What is a Professional Educator?
- Professional educators are value-driven, guided by principles, passion, and a purpose bigger than themselves.
- Professional educators are need analysts – competent to diagnose and prescribe options for educational success and significance.
- Professional educators believe their work is a vocation and calling rather than an occupation where one merely occupies space.
- Professional educators recognize that change is the norm. They are growth-oriented and consider themselves life-long learners and contributors.
- Professional educators are climate creators, recognizing that the conditions that surround learning contribute to learning.
- Professional educators are catalysts in promoting calculated risks that advance their profession and enable everyone access to success.
- Professional educators promote cohesiveness, collaboration, and team-building. They promote a “we are better together” philosophy.
- Professional educators create a climate of ownership by ensuring that everyone involved in the educational process is invited to participate.
- Professional educators are accountable to their clients, community, parents and students, providing a quality educational program for all children.
- Professional educators belong to an organization that promotes their profession above personal gain.
By Gene Bedley (2007)
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