Emma Veteto

Gjoni
SCED 499
November 21, 2018
InTasc 10: Reflection
InTasc standard 10 states that an effective educator “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.” The instructor acknowledges schools as organizations

within a social, political and historical context, understanding how to work collaboratively with

their community. The instructor should take responsibility for supporting the vision of their

school.

Standard 10 emphasizes the importance of school growth, both in the way of student

learning and community prevalence. An effective instructor takes an interest in both their

students’ lives and the lives of those within the community. This awareness shapes better, more

informed instructors and benefits both the organization itself and student understanding.

An ELA instructor could practice standard 10 by volunteering to develop book-fairs,

literacy projects or by enforcing a reward program in response to student reading. In taking these

roles of leadership, ELA instructors reinforce the importance of English in their real lives. In

order to take the community into consideration, an ELA instructor may host a writing contest

wherein the students detail how their community has shaped them.

This standard is important because it emphasizes the teacher’s responsibilities outside of

curriculum and lesson-planning. Although it is crucial to give students a space wherein they are
developing the core concepts of their education – i.e. science, math, ELA – this standard

enforces the validity of acknowledging these concepts outside of the classroom.