As you think about your professional development plan for the upcoming year, how have you made a SMARTER goal? Share your goal and strategies you've identified to anticipate and manage setbacks. How will you celebrate successes?
My goal for this year is to communicate more frequently with parents, guardians, and families. I hope to achieve this goal by utilizing Naviance (our new tool in the counseling department), scheduling my time better, and utilizing the cultural liasons more often to reach out to all families. I believe that some setbacks I may have will be the time management. I think I will be more successful if I set up a pattern of having communication daily and make it part of my routine. To celebrate my successes I envision that I will be rewarded by having better relationships with not only families, but also students as they will better see my involved in their wellbeing.
my goal is: This year I will implement the classroom management strategy of Love and Logic and apply them in my classes so that my students feel safe and successfuk as measured though classroom assessment and prefromance that will be reflected on each semester.
Marguerite- Have you used postcards to send home positive information? The one piece of advice I learned from grad school was to purchase postcards (or get them from your building) and write something positive and send them home. Who doesn't like to receive things in the mail....that are not bills???!!! Anyway it's worked really well for me in my 3 years teaching. In fact, I had a 10th grade girl tell me that her father hugged her for the first time in her life after reading the postcard I sent!
Working within the resource room for EBD, I want my goal to orient around streamlining my process for functional behavior assessment (observations, behavior intakes, etc...). My first year was a little bit scattered with this process and I'd like to make it more efficient. Some setbacks that I see coming up is establishing this process to be functional and effecient for my paras to access and utilize the assessment process as well (providing input and observing). I feel like I need to put a lot of thought into this system and it will definitly develop/emerge into its best iteration as the year goes on. My reward will be a more efficient way to process behavior and support student achievement.
I work with students with speech language needs. My goal this year is to have greater collaboration and communication with general education classroom teachers. I hope to begin this year as a new staff member in my building by establishing rapport with staff, students and parents early on. Finding time to meet with each of the classroom teachers could be difficult, but I hope to come up with a system for routine communication and check ins.
I am posting this comment this week because I am still struggling with the SMART goal I should be setting. I originally wanted to have a goal about parent contact because I think that it helps my students be successful. Also I did not do as much communication as I would have liked to last year. However, after training I have also been thinking about using the SMART board as a goal as JP is installing a SMART board in the classroom of all the English 7 staff this year. I want to be able to make my classroom more engaging for all of my students and I think that perhaps that goal would push me to do that. I think it is fine to have two goals to attempt to achieve, but what I concluded is that I will proabably go with the parent contact one this year and the SMARTboard next year. It is my first year teaching an honors course, which makes me nervous, but I think it will go well overall. I think that the parents of my honors students will want more contact this year, so that is why I am moving toward that goal. I hope to start the year off by trying to send as much specific positive feedback home as possible. Then hopefully I'll get the parents and students on my side.
I teach ELL and the subject we teach can switch completely year to year. My PDP that I had last year was too general, and it pertained more to what I was teaching last year. This year I am teaching completely different subjects. So right now I feel that I need to get my feet wet with the current curriculum. I am co-teaching 7th grade language arts, and I also am teaching newcomer ELL students. Since most of my day is with language arts, I may find that I may need to develop more ELL strategies for these students. And this would include putting more helpful information on the Website for helping students study, get help with writing and grammar, and to help them with reading strategies. Without being familiar with the language arts curriculum, it is hard to find what would be helpful. So I may just observe a bit before I jump into a goal as of yet. After reading some of the other comments, it looks as if other teachers have something to do with parent communication as their goal. Perhaps I may need to help ELL parents with language arts curriculum--or be a go-between in the communication with these parents so I better understand the nature of the student's struggles.
This yea, I have two goals. The first is my technology goal. I will create engaging lessons using my brand new smartboard (ordered but not installed) as well as my student response system. I hope to utilize these technologies once a week at the minimum. In order to accomplish that, I will spend 1-2 hours on Sunday afternoons.
The next goal is my PDP, which has changed slightly from last year:
I seek to create cohesive lesson plans at least twice a week. Usually I feel like things are slightly disjointed. I hope to mkae transitions more seamless. I will do this by meeting with my old mentor on Wednesdays after school and having her observe these lessons in action in a casual walkthrough setting to guage the level of cohension. I will also alter assignments so that they are more closely related to information in our textbook.
My goal for this year is to communicate more frequently with parents, guardians, and families. I hope to achieve this goal by utilizing Naviance (our new tool in the counseling department), scheduling my time better, and utilizing the cultural liasons more often to reach out to all families. I believe that some setbacks I may have will be the time management. I think I will be more successful if I set up a pattern of having communication daily and make it part of my routine. To celebrate my successes I envision that I will be rewarded by having better relationships with not only families, but also students as they will better see my involved in their wellbeing.
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ReplyDeleteThis year I will implement the classroom management strategy of Love and Logic and apply them in my classes so that my students feel safe and successfuk as measured though classroom assessment and prefromance that will be reflected on each semester.
Marguerite- Have you used postcards to send home positive information? The one piece of advice I learned from grad school was to purchase postcards (or get them from your building) and write something positive and send them home. Who doesn't like to receive things in the mail....that are not bills???!!! Anyway it's worked really well for me in my 3 years teaching. In fact, I had a 10th grade girl tell me that her father hugged her for the first time in her life after reading the postcard I sent!
ReplyDeleteWorking within the resource room for EBD, I want my goal to orient around streamlining my process for functional behavior assessment (observations, behavior intakes, etc...). My first year was a little bit scattered with this process and I'd like to make it more efficient. Some setbacks that I see coming up is establishing this process to be functional and effecient for my paras to access and utilize the assessment process as well (providing input and observing). I feel like I need to put a lot of thought into this system and it will definitly develop/emerge into its best iteration as the year goes on. My reward will be a more efficient way to process behavior and support student achievement.
ReplyDeleteI work with students with speech language needs. My goal this year is to have greater collaboration and communication with general education classroom teachers. I hope to begin this year as a new staff member in my building by establishing rapport with staff, students and parents early on. Finding time to meet with each of the classroom teachers could be difficult, but I hope to come up with a system for routine communication and check ins.
ReplyDeleteI am posting this comment this week because I am still struggling with the SMART goal I should be setting. I originally wanted to have a goal about parent contact because I think that it helps my students be successful. Also I did not do as much communication as I would have liked to last year. However, after training I have also been thinking about using the SMART board as a goal as JP is installing a SMART board in the classroom of all the English 7 staff this year. I want to be able to make my classroom more engaging for all of my students and I think that perhaps that goal would push me to do that. I think it is fine to have two goals to attempt to achieve, but what I concluded is that I will proabably go with the parent contact one this year and the SMARTboard next year. It is my first year teaching an honors course, which makes me nervous, but I think it will go well overall. I think that the parents of my honors students will want more contact this year, so that is why I am moving toward that goal. I hope to start the year off by trying to send as much specific positive feedback home as possible. Then hopefully I'll get the parents and students on my side.
ReplyDeleteI teach ELL and the subject we teach can switch completely year to year. My PDP that I had last year was too general, and it pertained more to what I was teaching last year. This year I am teaching completely different subjects. So right now I feel that I need to get my feet wet with the current curriculum. I am co-teaching 7th grade language arts, and I also am teaching newcomer ELL students. Since most of my day is with language arts, I may find that I may need to develop more ELL strategies for these students. And this would include putting more helpful information on the Website for helping students study, get help with writing and grammar, and to help them with reading strategies. Without being familiar with the language arts curriculum, it is hard to find what would be helpful. So I may just observe a bit before I jump into a goal as of yet. After reading some of the other comments, it looks as if other teachers have something to do with parent communication as their goal. Perhaps I may need to help ELL parents with language arts curriculum--or be a go-between in the communication with these parents so I better understand the nature of the student's struggles.
ReplyDeleteThis yea, I have two goals. The first is my technology goal. I will create engaging lessons using my brand new smartboard (ordered but not installed) as well as my student response system. I hope to utilize these technologies once a week at the minimum. In order to accomplish that, I will spend 1-2 hours on Sunday afternoons.
ReplyDeleteThe next goal is my PDP, which has changed slightly from last year:
I seek to create cohesive lesson plans at least twice a week. Usually I feel like things are slightly disjointed. I hope to mkae transitions more seamless. I will do this by meeting with my old mentor on Wednesdays after school and having her observe these lessons in action in a casual walkthrough setting to guage the level of cohension. I will also alter assignments so that they are more closely related to information in our textbook.
Here goes nothing!