Well, this week was just about as unproductive as last week. My meetings (as well as my pull out groups) keep getting cancelled and rescheduled due to a variety of end of the year activities. I believe this is just not the best time to begin a GAME plan when everything and everyone seem to be winding down. I have decided, through reflection, to refocus my efforts right now on something I can do by myself rather than through collaboration. I have another math meeting this morning. I am going to ask my supervisor if he knows if our state standards truly are changing. With this information I can begin to plan. I am going to collect ideas, sites, resources, etc. (perhaps problems based) for each anchor. I will put these in folders with the future plan to upload them onto a grade level wiki. I can organize each page as a different anchor. Eventually I can make this a district wide wiki. I will begin with fourth grade and then move to third. Those are the grades I work with the most since they are the ones that take our state tests. This is the best I can do at this time of the year to work toward my first NETS goal.
Again, I will have to be creative and rethink my plan of action for my second NETS goal. I do not believe I will have a chance to meet with the teachers by grade level for our final meeting. Instead, I can analyze our data from third grade and begin to formulate anchor groups. This will assist teachers in the beginning of the year as they are getting to know their students. I will provide additional information to meet their mathematical needs. Rather than meeting with the teachers to model how to add assignments and students to Compass Odyssey, I can develop a step-by-step form to present at the beginning of next year. In addition, I still have some students left to test in kindergarten and first grade. Our population is very transient, so we are constantly getting new students. I have at least 8 students to test in order to have data on them for the beginning of next year.
So, my Goals remain the same, but my Actions needed to change based on Monitoring and Evaluating what I have accomplished and what is possible to accomplish at this time of the year (Cennamo, Ross & Ertmer, 2009).
Reference:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. Chapter 11. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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Lynne,
ReplyDeleteI agree that this time of year is very difficult to try and implement something new (for your it is your meetings). Teachers seem to always have so much to get done this time of the year.
I am glad to hear that even though you are not able to move forward with your orignial plan, you are going to work to create an individual plan. I love your idea of collecting sites, ideas, and websites that you are going to share on a grade level wiki. This also allows others to add to the wiki and will become a great collaboration tool.
Lynne,
ReplyDeleteI think you are showing a great deal of flexiblity in your plan. I agree the summer is a good time to reflect and organize resources in order to be prepared for the new year.
Is there some discussion over changing your state standards? We had that in Social Studies here a few years ago. I think if you check out your state DOE website you would be able to find links to the state standards and usually there are press releases about upcoming changes.
Good luck with your adding the wiki - teachers will really benefit with being able to access the resources.
Hi Amy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for responding to my post! It is a busy time of year for all of us. Trying to clean our rooms and wrap up the year takes a lot of time and energy.
Thanks also for being so positive about my change in my GAME plan. The original plan would never work at this time, so I had to do the best I could to accomplish something helpful. I hope it is a useful tool!!
Hi Anna,
ReplyDeleteThank you for responding to my post! I have learned to be flexible through the years. So many things change that we need to be open and adaptable to do the best we can with whatever situation we are offered.
We received a proposal several months ago about updated state standards. I printed out the proposed new ones but have not heard anything additional about them yet. My supervisor said they are still in the works.
Thanks for your positive words about the wiki. I hope it winds up to be a useful tool for teachers.
I am sorry you keep getting blocked. It seems with the end of the year near there is not much we can do as teacher s to get help from co-workers or admin because of lack of time. Keep up the good work and there is always next year.
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