My Goals for PS2 Were To...
-Continue to push myself in really developing my personal style and bring myself to teaching in a genuine and meaningful way.
-Assess students on a day to day basis in an individual and specific way.
-Give: myself, my attention, my understanding, my passion.
-Continue to widen my own knowledge across subject matter to ensure that what I teach is relevant and that I feel confident while teaching it.
-Create new and engaging activities that make learning genuine for students.
-Explore a classroom without testing by implementing performance task assessments in hopes to de-stress the working environment.
-Continue to push myself in really developing my personal style and bring myself to teaching in a genuine and meaningful way.
-Assess students on a day to day basis in an individual and specific way.
-Give: myself, my attention, my understanding, my passion.
-Continue to widen my own knowledge across subject matter to ensure that what I teach is relevant and that I feel confident while teaching it.
-Create new and engaging activities that make learning genuine for students.
-Explore a classroom without testing by implementing performance task assessments in hopes to de-stress the working environment.
After reviewing these goals at the end of my PS2 experience I feel that I have truly achieved success in each of these areas.
These goals have translated into the planning of my short story unit, therefore, have been present in many of the lessons and projects that my class and I have completed. I feel that my unit covered a very meaningful and important topic in such a "low stakes" way that it encouraged play and creativity.
This learning experience has given me the opportunity to build my own authentic professional self, and I feel that I have taken it very seriously. It has become clear to me, through comments in my University Consultant evaluations, that I have been able to bring this "authentic self" forward through my teaching. Building relationships with my students is very important to me, and in building these meaningful connections I have been able to bring forward my true self.
These goals have translated into the planning of my short story unit, therefore, have been present in many of the lessons and projects that my class and I have completed. I feel that my unit covered a very meaningful and important topic in such a "low stakes" way that it encouraged play and creativity.
This learning experience has given me the opportunity to build my own authentic professional self, and I feel that I have taken it very seriously. It has become clear to me, through comments in my University Consultant evaluations, that I have been able to bring this "authentic self" forward through my teaching. Building relationships with my students is very important to me, and in building these meaningful connections I have been able to bring forward my true self.
My Goals Moving Into PS3:
- I will create a meaningful learning experience for my class by using performance tasks as a form of evaluation at the high school level.
-Modified due to a placement at the elementary level. "I will create meaningful learning experiences for my class by implementing performance tasks to engage students in everyday learning.
- I will help to create a school environment that encourages the comforts of home. This might include creating proper lighting or decor as a means of comfort for myself and my students.
-I will more skillfully scaffold all of the steps within my unit and year plan by adding as much detail and care as I include in each lesson plan. This is possible through seeing some of the "big" steps as smaller chunks and weaving the curriculum in such a way that students are able to identify the relativity of "what we have already done" to "what we are about to do".
- I will create a meaningful learning experience for my class by using performance tasks as a form of evaluation at the high school level.
-Modified due to a placement at the elementary level. "I will create meaningful learning experiences for my class by implementing performance tasks to engage students in everyday learning.
- I will help to create a school environment that encourages the comforts of home. This might include creating proper lighting or decor as a means of comfort for myself and my students.
-I will more skillfully scaffold all of the steps within my unit and year plan by adding as much detail and care as I include in each lesson plan. This is possible through seeing some of the "big" steps as smaller chunks and weaving the curriculum in such a way that students are able to identify the relativity of "what we have already done" to "what we are about to do".