It’s time to think about Lesson Reflections and Professional Development! I have really enjoyed reading your goals, and believe that what you have written gives us a lot to think about and work with in the next few months.
The trends that stand out in the goal sheets are:
- Accountability – holding high-ability students accountable for the quality of their work/participation.
- Collaboration – working with colleagues to address the needs of high-ability students when there are so many other things we need to collaborate about as well, and time isn’t provided for “gifted collaboration.”
- Differentiation – making the necessary adjustments to meet our high-ability students’ needs; providing challenging, high-quality experiences to targeted students.
- Engagement/ Motivation – how “hook” and motivate high-ability students (often connected to accountability).
- Identification – who are the “high-ability” students in our classrooms?
- Language Arts – developing high-level curriculum and learning goals; integration with content areas.
- Strategy Implementation – curriculum compacting was mentioned several times, along with choice menus, tiered assignments, and higher-order questioning.
For your first required lesson reflection of the ’09-’10 Program Year, we would like to connect YOUR goals to what you are doing in the classroom. A lesson reflection sheet was attached to the email that was sent out on 10/12/09 which asks you to try to make that connection. The lesson Reflection Sheet is available in both MS Word and Mac Pages formats, and can also be downloaded HERE from Confluence.
For this reflection you might choose to implement a strategy, or you might describe an action or series of actions you need to take in order to move toward your goal. Please either take a video of your lesson/strategy implementation, or include a copy of an artifact (such as a choice menu, an independent learning contract, etc.) that shows what you did to move forward toward your goal.
You will send your Lesson Reflection sheet to your coach, along with any artifacts. If you take video, CLICK HERE to learn how to share the video with your coach (you can just share a key portion). Please complete this Lesson Reflection activity as close to Friday, 10/30 as possible – we’ll have a new focus for the weeks prior to Thanksgiving. Again, send it to your coach (not me), and save a copy for yourself (I’ll be collecting these in December).
Below are few other HASIP resources that might help you with this reflection activity – these are all available through Confluence. You MUST be on your MacBook with the “tunnel open”) that is, connected to the VPN) for the links to work. You’ll be asked to log in to Confluence, and then will be taken to the specific resource (this applies to the links above as well).
As always, if there is any way we can support you, please don’t hesitate to let us know!
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