Diversity Proficiencies

From the perspective of a teacher-leader and mentor, compose a 4 page letter to the teacher in the VFE that:

Explains the teacher’s strengths based on the NBPTS core propositions as well as Walden’s Professional Dispositions, Technology Proficiencies, and Diversity Proficiencies. In your letter, provide specific examples from the VFE as well as the Learning Resources to support your explanations.

Explains a teaching practice from the VFE upon which the teacher may wish to improve and how to improve upon that practice. Support your explanation with specific references to the NBPTS core propositions as well as Walden’s Professional Dispositions, Technology Proficiencies, and Diversity Proficiencies.

Explains your view of the educational environment reflected in the classroom and how the VFE teacher might create a high-performing environment in the classroom. Support your explanation with specific references to the Learning Resources from this course.

Suggests one of the essays from the Nieto (2014) text (with a summary) that the teacher might relate to and why the teacher should read it.

Learning resources are in Walden Citations document: You must use the propositions, dispositions, proficiencies, and Haney’s book.

Haney’s book:

Nieto, S. (Ed.). (2014). Why we teach now. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

For the book may look at:
Part II: “Looking Back” (pp. 21–22)

Chapter 2, “Kids are Far More Than Test Scores Or Why I Continued To Teach In Spite of It” by Mary Ginley (pp. 23–35)

Chapter 3, “Staying True to Why I Teach” by Nina Tepper (pp. 36–44)

Chapter 4, “Looking Forward Backwards: Teaching Freedom and Democracy in the Classroom” by Berta Rosa Berriz, with Alice McCabe, Jerry Pisani, Amanda Smallwood, Taryn Snyder, Lesley Strang, Jeffrey Timberlake, and Erica Welch (pp. 45–62)

Chapter 24, “Conclusion: Why On Earth Teach Now?” by Sonia Nieto (pp. 243–254)