My artifact is the inter-professional simulation in which we collaborated with occupational therapists as well as caseworkers from their respective classes at UNE. This was done to simulate an IEP in which we would first collaborate with our cohorts to find the best options for a struggling student and then discuss this with the parents.
Standard #10: Leadership and Collaboration
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth and to advance the profession.
As the teacher, we take responsibility for our student’s academic success. When students are struggling and require an IEP meeting we need to bring forth the data and what efforts we have made, and want to make to get that student back on track. With the inter-professional simulation, we needed to collaborate with a social worker and occupational therapist student to get their input as to what they would do in their respective jobs to help a struggling student. This is to prepare us for our real IEP meeting when we become teachers. This standard talks about leadership which will typically come from the teacher being the one to try and get an IEP meeting. Then the standard talks about collaboration which comes from us talking with cohorts in the school to get our students the resources that they may need.
