FEAP 5: Continuous Improvement, Responsibility and Ethics: The effective educator consistently:
5a. Design purposeful professional goals to strengthen the effectiveness of instruction based on students' needs.
5b. Examines and uses data-informed research to improve instruction and student achievement.
5c. Uses a variety of data, independently, and in collaboration with colleagues, to evaluate learning outcomes, adjust planning and continuously improve the effectiveness of the lessons.
5e. Engages in targeted professional growth opportunities and reflective practices.
5d. Collaborates with the home, school and larger communities to foster communication and to support student learning and continuous improvement.
5f. Implements knowledge and skills learned in professional development in the teaching and learning process.
On the right is a snapshot of my professional development plan that addresses my personal development goals and offers strategies on how I will accomplish these goal to keep me accountable.
After a several week book study, I was able to examine and practice the practices in The Leader in Me. Research shows, allowing students to be in charge of their own actions leads them to become strong leaders and encourages them to make better choices.
The grade level meets for an all-day meeting to review data and group plan for the upcoming quarter. We reviewed the scores from Performance matters to determine where the students are and what standards still need to be met. All teachers share ideas and lessons and put it all together on a grade level academic plan.
The second grade team worked together to make an example of a tree map to hang on the wall as a way to share ideas and thoughts on how to incorporate thinking maps into our curriculum.
After a Wednesday morning professional development meeting on Smart Boards, I was inspired to create my own interactive Smart Board activity.
The school host a Literacy Night every year. The Big Rig visits every year and offers a book of their choice to each student to encourage the students to keep reading. After school hours students and their families come back to school for a night filled with literacy events ranging from strategies to promote reading at home to showing off their literature boards.
