Domain D: Fullfilment of Professional Responsabilities
D1. Teaching Assistants will demonstrate evidence of professionalism as defined by the Department of English Graduate Handbook and the Reglamento of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
D2. Teaching Assistants will build and maintain professional relationships with students, mentors, colleagues, and other University community members.
D3. Teaching Assistants will seek and demonstrate value of professional growth through involvement in professional organizations, maintenance and enrichment of proficiency in English, and awareness of research on language acquisition and pedagogy.
Domain D1: Teaching Assistants will demonstrate evidence of professionalism as defined by the Department of English Graduate Handbook and the Reglamento of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
As a GTA and current Graduate Representative, I am always working hard to stay up to date with everything the Department needs. This is no exception with my courses. I am always moving up and improving on the areas I know my students need most help in. Through the two semesters in which I have been able to recollect feedback through COEs (Professor Evaluation Survey), some of the words which mostly stood out in my strengths were:
Dynamic
Passionate
Caring
Prepared
Loving
Compassionate
Alert
Responsible
Domain D2:Teaching Assistants will build and maintain professional relationships with students, mentors, colleagues, and other University community members.
Through my years in the program, I have had many opportunities to work alongside many people in my Department. Alongside personal interest, I have broadened my horizon into many fields of English Education. Between the many things I have worked with, the biggest implement in my MAEE career has been becoming Graduate Representative for the English Department. Through my work as Grad Rep for the department, I have been hard at work into creating a positive and open communication between the students and the faculty. Each month, I share a meeting with the English Department faculty, the Graduate Committee, and the graduate students. All information presented in which I feel is valuable for the graduate students to know, I bring to the meetings. This also goes for the faculty, any information and worries the graduate students I will bring to the faculty. As well as this, the students asked to create a Facebook group for MAEE students where there would be no faculty. Because TAs who have finished UTD, and any non-TA MAEE student is not allowed on the official UTD page, this page bring a space for all of us to communicate.
Other than my work as Graduate Representative, I have had the opportunity to present in two Popular Culture conferences: the PCA/ACA 2016 National Conference in Seattle, Washington, and the PCSA 2016 Conference in the UPRM. I have worked as an Editorial Assistant for the a/b: Auto/Biography Studies journal. I am currently working Dr. Ricia Chansky on some publicacions on autoethography in teacher preparation and curricular policy in Brazil.
Domain D3: Teaching Assistants will seek and demonstrate value of professional growth through involvement in professional organizations, maintenance and enrichment of proficiency in English, and awareness of research on language acquisition and pedagogy.
Through my time as a graduate student, I have looked to expand my horizon in learning through outside sources. With the opportunities presented to me, I have been able to join a couple of associations to grow in my professional career. I am currently a member of PRTESOL in the Western Chapter. I have gone to conferences in the island and connect with many teachers primarily from the Western part of the island. I am also a member of the Popular Culture Student Association, where I presented in a panel alongside Prof. Gabriel Romaguera and Prof. Edward Contreras. For the PCA/ACA National Conference, I, alongside a group of students, traveled to Seattle, Washington. During the conference, I presented on the Out Loud! Festival, an Advance English Festival where students are able to share creative or academic projects in which they create re-designed versions of texts, promoting the use of critical thinking in the classroom.
