Reflective practitioners actively, persistently, and carefully consider and reconsider their beliefs and practices in light of their experiences as collaborative professionals within the school system. The reflective practitioner is able to critically examine the school environment and act in deliberate and intentional ways to derive the most effective teaching-learning situations. A critical consumer is a person who can locate, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate summaries of research reports, summaries of best practice, reports of new innovative teaching methods and practices, summaries of assessment processes, and reports of characteristics of assessments used in the schools. A collaborative professional is an individual who successfully implements quality educational programs for students through the competent use of systematic decision-making, communication skills, positive motivation, reflective actions, and critical evaluation. The collaborative professional is able to demonstrate competencies in these strands required of a beginning educator.
Collaboration requires joint responsibility and actions to accomplish professional tasks.
Beginning teachers must be able to collaborate with parents, administrators, and their colleagues to accomplish these tasks.