Things have been going well and I've been consistently lesson planning but it was nice this week to have a couple days without students for professional development. It's always a pleasure to share common practices with teachers who also work with the same students as you. I still don't have much of a presence with the rest of the faculty, but I enjoyed listening to the things they had to say to try to understand what I'll be dealing with next year when I'm a full time teacher. We mainly discussed a new rating system for the teachers. Some teachers voiced an initial disapproval and others didn't look like they wanted to learn something new, but ultimately all the teachers agreed on the best way they could implement new teaching strategies to fit in line with the new teacher-rating system.
One of the neat things I took away from the workshop was a new creative way to write objectives. I was familiar with SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) but in addition to that the "Danielson Model" encourages us to include IOT (In Order To). An example would be...Student will be able identify the major characteristics necessary for a civilization to survive in order to better understand the fall of Rome. I think this is a useful (IOT) because if it's projected or written on the board it will remind students of their overall goal AND how they are going to apply this new learned material.
It's been a shortened week so tomorrow is only my 3rd day with the students but I'm excited to get back in the classroom with them and try to implement these new strategies. We'll see how it goes but I'll be sure to keep you posted!
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