Commitment to the Profession

Teachers are members of a profession. As a member of a profession, we promise to be

role models to our students, be student focused, and have a life-long love of learning that we
facilitate to our students. We must have competence in teaching and our content. We must
acknowledge specific duties and responsibilities toward the students, staff, parents, community,
and all other people we serve. We also have the right to be trained, admitted, disciplined, and
dismissed for failure to sustain competence of observe the duties and responsibilities of being an
educator.
As for me, I am becoming a member of the profession. I am becoming more of a role
model everyday by getting closer to completing my goal of graduating undergraduate college;
and I continue to be educated every day not only from my classes, but from my observations in
public classrooms, and also professional development opportunities offered from my school and
the community I live in.
I have been to several professional development opportunities, but the ones that stick out
the most are: the Regional Workforce Development Conference; Protecting Yourself in a
Campus Crisis Situation; being trained in CPR; and becoming a member of Kappa Delta Pi. I
believe that all of these have helped me in a way that will help me teach students in my future.