Prompt 1 (2nd Webinar Sessions) : What are your goals for the Spring 2014? What are 3 things that you want to improve or initiate within your classroom this semester? How can your Cadre Leader support you with these goals?
For the Spring terms I would like to implement self assessing of students. When I was evaluated by the district (my principal) she mentioned that my strengths and my weaknesses, the biggest weakness being that I ask the class if they believe they got the material and most just nodded their head. I was given advice to have a scale that students will be able to measure themselves and display to me so that I do not move forward on a lesson until the students feel comfortable with the material. Also get in touch with other school's instructors to collaborate on district\state standards.
Three things to improve: 1) Oratory\Lecture skills. I tend to have the material on a power point and while that helps I may not be using the specific words (vocab words to explain the concepts\lessons).
2) Collaborate with other instructors to have a more uniform structure of material.
3) Setup a feedback\self assessment scale for students so that they inform me of comfort level before I do an assessment.
I've been getting much info from other instructors and from online sources, if the the Cadre Leader has material on self assessments that would be much appreciated. As of now I use Fist to Five scale. This is a very simple method where students raise their hand and pick between a fist, meaning no understanding, and a 5 fingers up, indicating students feels they have it mastered.
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