The information from this workshop will easily be used daily in my classroom. As mentioned before, it's important for teachers to command a room, or at least be an authoritative figure in it. By dressing professionally, you accomplish this goal. On top of that, you achieve a secondary goal: modeling proper dress for students when it comes to their professions. Furthermore, you garner more respect from parents if you dress like you take the class seriously. Additionally, by doing the proper research on a school district before applying, you gain a deeper understanding of the context students are coming into your class with, and therefore may more easily connect communally with your students. By treating education as a profession and acting the part, you send a much more positive message home with students: that you actually care about your job, as opposed to just showing up and going through the motions. It's not the teachers who let things slide and dress casually that your remember fondly, it's the ones who challenged you and were authorities in the room. Dressing professionally and building a proper resume helps create this persona.
