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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