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K. Suk
EDUC 230-02 Education Field Experience
Spring 2019
Welcome Letter Rationale Statement
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. (New Jersey
Rationale Statement:
This artifact is a welcome letter that is sent to the students’ families before school starts
to introduce myself as an individual and to prep the students on what to expect for the upcoming
school year. This letter includes major topics I will be teaching throughout the school year, as
well as materials needed for my class. I also included some information about myself in the
letter, that way the families can get to know me on a more personal level and feel more
comfortable meeting me in the beginning of the year. This letter is also a great way to get
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families involved in their child’s learning experience. This artifact correlates to Standard 10.i.4,
“The teacher works collaboratively with learners and their families to establish mutual
(New Jersey Department of Education, 2014, p. 13). This standard emphasizes the needs for
mutual expectations between learners/families and their teacher. This standard also focuses on
open communication between families and their teacher. In my welcome letter, I included the
main skills that we will be focusing on throughout the school year. This gives parents an idea of
what their child will be learning, and what they can expect out of their children and my class. At
the end of my welcome letter, I made sure to leave contact information for the families if they
ever need to contact me. I left it welcoming and open for them to reach out to me for anything
While writing the welcome letter, I had to think about what information is appropriate to
share with my students and families. The welcome letter that you send out is the families first
impression of you. I had to think about how I would want to be perceived and what I wanted to
openly share. Writing this welcome letter made me realize how sharing not only school-related
information, but personal information as well is valuable to the learners and their families. They
will see me not only as a teacher, but as an individual. After I finished my welcome letter, I
showed it to my mom and asked her what her thoughts were if she were to receive this welcome
letter. My mom said that she liked it because it gave a great overview of what the child will be
doing in class, but it also gave suggestions on how the parents can help reinforce these skills
outside of school. She also thought my personal information showed that I was excited and
passionate about teaching. My mom said I kept it brief and didn’t say too much about myself,
which was a good thing because teachers should not over share personal information.
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I can use this welcome letter as a template in the future. I can look back at the welcome
letter to make sure I provided the proper information that a teacher’s welcome letter should
include. I liked the way I set up and organized my welcome letter, so I can look back to get ideas
Reference:
New Jersey Department of Education. (2014, May 5). New Jersey Professional Standards for
https://www.state.nj.us/education/profdev/profstand/ProfStandardsforTeachersAlignmen
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