My 2010-2011 PDP

This school year, I will implement a Reader's and Writer's Notebook as well as rubrics for each, these will be based on the strategies I learned from a book study on Aimee Buckner's Notebook Connections and Notebook Know How.
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If I successfully obtain my goal I will reward myself by getting something special for the classroom. For example, improving my listening center or buying more clocks for math.

My PDP

My PDP is to continue to incorporate literacy skills in my PE warm-ups and to do these warm-ups at least two out of the four lessons in each unit.

Classroom teachers feel free to post any literacy ideas for grades 1-5 that can be used in an active way! This is something we started last year and we really want to build on it this year and make it something that benefits the students (especially the kinesthetic learners) and something that can help improve their spelling scores and maybe even possibly their MAP/MCA scores.

Goal 2010-2011 Laura

My goal this upcoming school year is based on information that I learned from the Literacy Institute. I have worked on Writers Workshop in the past, but am going to be focusing in on a part of Writers Workshop that I struggled with last year. My goal is to use conferring in my classroom to build knowledge on my students to drive instruction using small groups and mini lessons. I am hoping to be able to confer with my students early in the year once classroom management is set up. I hope that conferring will allow me to know my students quicker and gain more knowledge about them as a student.

PDP Goal 2010 - 2011 ... Kathryn All

My professional development goal for the 2010 - 2011 school year is to create authentic assessments that demonstrate the stated growth on student IEPs within IEP due dates.

My motivation for choosing this goal is to not only teach the students that I work with skills that they use in school, but to give them opportunities to transfer the material that they have learned to other locations and situations outside of school and make applicable assessments.

Your Perfessional Development Goals for 2010-2011 School year

What is your goal for the upcoming school year?

PDP Goal 2010-2011

After attending the summer literacy institute, I decided to create a literacy goal for this year. In overview, my goal is to improve my literacy teaching through the use of an "assessment binder." While I confer with students during reading and writing, I will take notes on student progress. In turn, I will focus on making "strategy groups" based on students' needs, rather than solely grouping kids in guided reading groups based on their DRA levels. I look forward to sharing my assessment binder with you, and collecting any advice you all may have!

Andrea

My professional goal is to define and post literacy learning objectives for students and keep track in my plan book. Any ideas on the best way to post? I was thinking some sort of flip chart. Perhaps a flip chart for the essential question, the objective and if I am really organized a language objective. Any ideas on how to make this more time efficient?

Back to School 2010!

Hey fellow Shakopee Teachers!

I can't believe the school year is approaching, the summer has flown by.  I look forward to all your posts throughout the school year!

Happy blogging!

Leann