Bernice Garcia

Standard 5.b: Professional Development, Partnerships and Advocacy;

Principle #9 Reflective Practitioner, Continued Professional Growth;
Principle #10 Fostering Collaborative Relationships to Support
Student Learning
The artifact I have chosen for standard 5.b, professional growth
is my resume. My resume reflects all the years I have been working
professionally as a teacher. I graduated from City College with a
bachelor degree in Childhood Education in 2012 and a Bilingual
Extension in 2014.
As soon as I graduated, I was fortunate to find a job as a leadteacher for a Pre-K classroom. This was an amazing first teaching
setting because I was able to work with a small group of ten students. I
also had an experienced director, who was a teacher for fifteen years
in the public school system. She was very dedicated in helping me plan
daily for each of my students needs and gave me multiple
opportunities to observe other teachers teach at the school.
Before I graduated City College, I was placed in C.S. 200 Public
School as a student teacher in 1st grade and 5th grade. Throughout, the
semester I was able to assist and learn how to grade papers (learn the
mathematics), develop lesson plans and implement them, work in
small groups that focused in an academic area, observed student
growth, and learned about different teaching methods.

Lastly, in 2014 I received my Bilingual Extension from Lehman

College. This opened the opportunity for me to become the second
grade dual language teacher at P.S. 96, where Im currently still at. In
these three years as a second grade dual language teacher I have
grown professionally in many different ways. Some of these ways are,
differentiating instruction, aligning lesson plans to the common core
standards, creating rigorous student work, etc. Im still working hard in
growing professionally. Im looking forward to complete my tenure this
year and join the National Board Certification next school year. I
believe joining the Nation Board Certification will help me gain
additional knowledge and techniques on how to reach each domain
from the framework, in which teachers are graded from.