Monday, April 11, 2011

Proper Etiquette

I have already had an encounter with the choice of using proper etiquette with another professional in the school system.  I am doing my practicum right now with Mr. Curt Isaacson at Northwest High School and he is easiest to get ahold of over text messaging.  Anytime that I need to ask him something or text him for any reason, I have the choice to either use proper etiquette or not.  I believe that it would be really unprofessional to use poor etiquette over text, because I work with him in a school setting and he is my superior. If I used shortcuts or poor grammar within my texts, it shows that I don't take the type of relationship we have into consideration, or perhaps even that I don't respect him, (which couldn't be further from the truth, but it would come across that way.) 

I also believe that if I start making good habits now with being professional and using proper etiquette, that it will transfer over into my career and be natural to me; in other words, I won't have to break bad habits.  Using good habits with proper etiquette specifically as a student also shows that I take what I do seriously and that I want to do what I am studying.

1 comment:

  1. I agree that we need to form good habits now so that we do not have to break them later. Old habits are definitely hard to break and using proper etiquette now as a student will help me to be a good example as a teacher someday!

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