Your essay should be a reflective statement on Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education’s conceptual framework: Professionalism in Service of Social Justice. The essay should address what it means to be an educator in service of social justice and the critical areas of service, skills, knowledge and ethics.
Your essay needs to address the following questions:
• What does it mean to be an educator in service of social justice?
• Why are the areas of service, skills, knowledge and ethics critical to advancing social justice through education?
• What issues of social justice and inequity have been raised by your clinical experiences in schools and communities and your coursework at Loyola?
• What are the implications of the conceptual framework for your work as a teacher in the future?
