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| I tweaked my goal picture a bit to reflect updates in my teaching/learning goals for the year. |
In the limitless profession of education, educators have to continually navigate directives, expectations, and the teaching/learning landscape around them to define priorities, goals, and vision. I find that this is a regular activity of teaching and learning since there are many challenges to staying the course and doing what's best. As I drill down on the main objectives of the teaching/learning year, I am reaching greater and greater definition of what to do and how to do it.
Math Teaching/Learning
Success Criteria: Students will master the standards with engaging, empowering, and deep math learning experiences.
Success Criteria: Students will master the standards with engaging, empowering, and deep math learning experiences.
- Teach unit by unit, standard by standard
- Embed a variety of learning experiences into each unit including more floor-to-ceiling engaging, empowering project work
- Assess regularly
- Review, reflect, revise, and refine regularly
Science Teaching/Learning
Success Criteria: Students will master the standards with engaging, empowering, collaborative science learning experiences.
Success Criteria: Students will master the standards with engaging, empowering, collaborative science learning experiences.
- Build teamwork via introductory activities with a focus on partnerships
- Start with revisiting notecard challenge w/focus on lab reports and good collaboration
- Integrate math and science with balance activity
- Focus on vocabulary with properties of matter activity
- Integrate reading strategies and comprehension with Matter booklets
- Integrate writing with lab reports, projects, and reflection activities
- Teach standard by standard with engaging activities
- Teach physical science December through the end of March
- Teach STEAM activities in March and April
- Review all K-5 standards in early April prior to MCAS
- Deepen environmental education in spring after MCAS
Reading
Success Criteria: Students will read daily for about 20-40 minutes in school and 20 minutes or more at home. They will develop a greater love, interest, and ability in reading as part of a community of dedicated, invested, and engaged readers.
Success Criteria: Students will read daily for about 20-40 minutes in school and 20 minutes or more at home. They will develop a greater love, interest, and ability in reading as part of a community of dedicated, invested, and engaged readers.
- Read every morning from 8:30-9:00
- Check in regularly with readers
- Create more ways for children to share book recommendations
- Have a class reading list visible
- Let students see me reading on my own, talking about books, and reading aloud regularly
- Perhaps begin a page on the web page for book recommendations
- Discuss other ideas with colleagues and students
SEL
Success Criteria: Students will deeply understand and exhibit the habits and benefits of optimal social emotional learning and practice.
Success Criteria: Students will deeply understand and exhibit the habits and benefits of optimal social emotional learning and practice.
- Continue to build in SEL teaching/learning activities throughout the curriculum
Local Union
Success Criteria: Educators will work collaboratively to increase their ability to lead their profession in ways that matter most with regard to teaching every child well.
Success Criteria: Educators will work collaboratively to increase their ability to lead their profession in ways that matter most with regard to teaching every child well.
- Update website
- Organize meeting agendas and minutes
- Attend and participate in regular meetings and activities
Reading List