As an effective teacher, I view my professional identity in five domains: planned curriculum, bringing vulnerability to my lesson planning, knowing when to assess my students, accommodating, and fostering new perspectives. My approach to teaching is to provide a safe space to inspire and nurture student learning through encouraging critical thinking and broadening students’ knowledge in relation to their own experiences and interests. From my experience this will allow students’ experiences and their reflections to be a basis to expand and challenge knowledge within the curriculum guidelines. As an educator, I want to provide intellectual risk-taking opportunities where students will explore their strengths and facilitate interactive learning with their peers.