Personal Statement: My Goals As A Concordia Candidate

As a Concordia candidate you must abide by the knowledge, skills, and values that are necessary to make you a life-long scholar, competent problem-solver, and a servant leader. As a Concordia candidate, I will stay abreast of current educational practices and developments as part of my personal professional growth. I will also demonstrate responsibility, reliability, and professionalism as I go about my duties. It will be my goal to build collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, parents/guardians, social agencies, professional organizations, and others who can be instrumental in supporting the educational vision. These three concepts will help me be a better educator and achieve my goals as a teacher. As a Concordia candidate, I intend to be a life-long scholar that will stay abreast of current educational practices and developments as part of my personal professional growth. I will embody this particular disposition in my professional teaching career by having an open mindset on my practice by remaining open to critique, reflecting on it, and by simply wanting to do better for my profession and for my students. An open mindset will help me

I will achieve this by treating every student equally and fairly. I will invest my time in every single student so I can gain their trust. I will also schedule meetings with the parents/guardians and talk about their child’s progress in my class so they can get to know me and how I choose to run my class. I will also build relationships with colleagues, administrators, and social agencies by communicating with them often and by collaborating ideas, issues, new teaching strategies, etc. with maintain a professional