Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Reflecting on this year and looking forward to next school year 2017 -18.
What have you learned this year that you can apply for next year? How can we bring out the best academic performance in our students? Who have you benefited from collaborating with this year? How do you access your students' academic work? How frequently? Do you post their grades? How frequently do you update their posted grades? When and how do we reteach content?
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I wonder how we might look at student work in dept. on a regular basis to inform our teaching? What work and data are we analyzing from Interim assessments, class work, common lessons and how do these data analysis inform how we shift our teaching practice? Are grades posted in all classrooms consistently and are students provided the opportunity to take on accountability of their academic progress? Lexile reading growth? ALEKs mastery of standards? How do we reteach standards? Is there alignment in Science, History, English, Math and PE of how Data is reviewed and calibrated to grades? How may this inform our Professional development needs for the 17-18 school year?
ReplyDeleteI think in order to bring out the best academic performance with our students, we really need to find their level and start from there. Those students that have struggled from one year to the other tend to need the most help, and those are the ones that set the tone for the class, but if we can start at their level and mix it up with more challenging problems for those that have acquired the necessary skills, we should have a more successful year.
ReplyDeleteWhat I have learned this year that has really resonated with me is the importance of using students as a resource, to empower them to be little co-teachers in every way and hopefully bringing out their best academic performance through them taking ownership. I have greatly benefited from my collaboration with Ms. Hatfield as she has graciously given of her time and expertise to teach some lessons in my creative writing class. I access academic work through rubrics, and normally various aspects are accessed daily through do now activities. Regarding grades, I normally post them on Study Sync, or discuss grades when papers are returned. I think content can be retaught through games, oral repetition, and technology i.e., videos.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mr. Thomas! I think your creative writers's talents have really flourished this semester, and it has been a pleasure co-planning with you and co-organizing this PBL Book Project.
DeleteThis year I tried some new strategies to better prepare my students for the physical fitness test. I learned that although my warm-up was effective, that the students appreciated and were more engaged when there was some variety to our exercises. I also noticed improvement when I assessed their abilities as well. I will be incorporating some of those strategies next year from the beginning for sure.
ReplyDeleteNext year I look forward to collaborating even further with my department, looking at teaching strategies, homework, and student interventions. I would also like to learn some new games, and I think I may want to attend some professional developments.
...and RJ circles with Ms. Hernandez :)
DeleteI have very much enjoyed and learned from the work Mr. Morrison and I have done with Community Circles in his advisory this year. Thank you for welcoming me and sharing the space.
I have learned to be consistent in the implementation of expectations. I have also learned to be flexible when needed.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have learned this year that I will try to apply for the next year is clear goals for my students in each unit and giving both formative and summative assessments to measure growth. Collaboration with my department, grade level teams, and out of classroom staff has benefited my work with the students because we are able to see students through multiple lenses and plan through vertical alignment.
ReplyDeleteI have learned invaluable lessons in time management and working with many different people (students and teachers). I have benefitted from working with general education teachers and the other RSP teachers to accommodate as many students as possible and share best practices with coworkers. Next year I hope to create generic binders/portfolios that can be shared with general education teachers, classroom assistants, and other special education teachers with graphic organizers, intervention strategies, and supports that can be used with ALL special education students.
ReplyDeleteI feel some of the most important things I learned this year that I will take with me for next year will be common practices that I shared with other teachers. For example, classroom management strategies for calming distressed students down and using other practices to help motivate student learning. I feel that sharing equal time amongst both grade level and department is important in order gain information about our students and curriculum. Finally I usually access student work once or twice a week on schoology just to make see each students progress. The students grades are posted in real time and are available for students to see at all times.
ReplyDeleteI want to do more academic vocabulary lessons next year. I’ve done several lessons this year and it’s been great to see an increase in their vocabulary retention. I also want to reinforce the class rules and remind the students of the consequences after a long break or a holiday. I also have to remind myself to have students write down their id, email, and pin on a notecard so I can collect them all and keep it in the classroom. I loved collaborating with all the ELA teachers because each teacher is able to input something different. I posted my grades on my classroom wall, but I noticed that recently the grades that were printed didn’t match the grades on my grade book. I try to update my grades as much as I can. I try to grade at least 2 assignments per week. Depending on the work data or what I see/hear, I will cater my teaching to their needs.
ReplyDeleteThis year I to keep pushing/challenging the students even when they resist. Even though students might complain at that moment in time, I've also seen a lot of these students rise up to the expectations. Collaborating with my department, especially with Mr. Ferrel with the PBIS lessons, have benefitted me in planning. Talking to other teachers when I can have also helped me working with difficult students. I access my students' academic work through biweekly notebook checks or having students turn in assignments through schoology. As mentioned, I assess student learning at a minimum every 2 weeks. I try to update grades every notebook check for Science class and every week for STEM lab. Students can see their current grades at all times by accessing their Schoology account.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that we need to be more aware of how schools are structured to have more narrow focus and ensure we evaluate the effectiveness of what we implement. In that sense I like the collaboration within the 7th grade math teachers to give common assessments and collaborate in strategies with our fellows.
ReplyDeleteI give my students a grade report 1.5-2 weeks before grades are due. This semester I had one class in schoology and i notice some students don't sign in regularly to keep track of their grades. I like printing a grade report for them to glue and check off.
The learning is on-going and continual. It is challenging to pick one thing, person or lesson. Grades and feedback are given in a layered approach. Each class, by lesson, chapter, grading period, and semester. YOKA RSP teachers Rock! and the support staff is really great. Such a pleasure working with everyone. Yeah Math Team :) and Admin :)
ReplyDeleteHaving focused goals and planning ahead leads to great success. Excited for next school year!