March 7th 2011
Goal 18: Share A Story With this goal, we are encouraged to share our story of how we have loved to learn in new, innovative ways. So this is my story … While reading an NBPTS brief, I stumbled upon a blogger, Coach G., and how he handled a simple classroom management issue. It was [...]
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February 28th 2011
Goal 12: Engage Parents Quote “People have been known to achieve more as a result of working withothers than against them.” ~Dr. Allan Fromme Dealing with parents can be one of the most difficult aspects of our job as a teacher. For some of us, parents may not be too involved, and not many of us [...]
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February 16th 2011
Goal #4 … Leave it Behind Everyone can have a bad day. Recall a time when you were stressed, or overwhelmed, or just angry. How did you respond? Did your students notice? What impact did that moment have on learning? Let’s face reality … we ALL have bad days. Yet, let’s consider what is our [...]
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February 9th 2011
When I first watched the movie, Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, I didn’t get it. When the ending revealed that Bruce Willis’s character had been dead the entire movie, I was shocked. I immediately started the movie again to see if I could find all the clues that others seemed to see so easily. How [...]
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February 6th 2011
As a mentor and teacher evaluator, I have learned so much about what research proves is effective teaching. In our district, we have recently adopted the Charlotte Danielson Framework for teaching (http://www.danielsongroup.org/) as a rubric for teacher evaluation. The rubric provides many valuable tools for improving student achievement since the focus of the observation is [...]
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