Becoming a teacher is a role that you will carry for the rest of your life. Being professional means taking your role and responsibility seriously. A role of being a leader and setting a good example for your students. Teaching them how to be kind and considerate, as you show by example. As the STF code of professional ethics states, you are “to support each student in reaching their highest levels of individual growth across intellectual, social-emotional, spiritual and physical domains”. It is your job to bring out the best of each and every student. This includes being considerate of each students own personal struggles and ways that they learn best. Being a responsible teacher you are able to adapt to fit the needs of all students. Being responsible for their well-being and helping them to learn and grow as individuals. Being a professional also means collaborating with colleagues and other professionals. As the article told us, “effective professional relationships are essential to the teaching practice and teachers share the responsibility for the quality of these relationships”. This explains that your teaching job is more than just a relationship between the teacher and the students. Although you are only in the classroom for some amount of time, your heart and soul is being a teacher 24 hours of the day. You are always thinking and planning on how to enhance your students learning environment. This goes along with your own actions. The way you think and act outside of the classroom, should be as if your class is watching. This means staying professional on and off of the job. As a student in the Faculty of Education, my responsibility is to take my role seriously. Putting in an enormous amount of effort in to learn and grow as an individual. Staying professional both off and on the job. This means during school and my at home life. It is also my responsibility to respect the viewpoints of others while gaining a voice to express my own.