Part 1: Personal Reflection
Working towards my goals will take self-discipline. My tendency to dive into the classroom each day and completely submerge myself in my interactions with each of my 7th graders means that I need to have dedicated times to reflect, record, and recharge. Specifically I need to put reminders on my calendar and phone to insure that time actually happens. I believe that each one of the goals listed below will help me be more valuable STEM leader in my school.
Short-term Goals:
Working towards my goals will take self-discipline. My tendency to dive into the classroom each day and completely submerge myself in my interactions with each of my 7th graders means that I need to have dedicated times to reflect, record, and recharge. Specifically I need to put reminders on my calendar and phone to insure that time actually happens. I believe that each one of the goals listed below will help me be more valuable STEM leader in my school.
Short-term Goals:
- Continue learning how to use or repurpose different types of technology. Using technology to boost student creativity, to engage them, to meet them where they are at, has proven successful.
- Seek out STEM professional development, on-line resources and become more adept at using Google Classroom over the next six months. (See my curated resources below!)
- Continue From Me to We to You next year! As a teacher embracing social justice values, it’s important to me to build and refine the inquiry process with the purpose of empowering my students to own their learning and connect it to their lives. Given the positive feedback from students, staff and parents, I plan to increase the number of students presenting from 14 to at least 50 participants.
- Take on a stronger leadership role within my school. Assist with planning future Health Fairs and designing other events to showcase student work within our school and community.
- Build a list of parents and community speakers to draw upon for student inquiry projects. Several parents in the medical field offered their experience throughout the year, and I would like to continue to draw upon their expertise for student research.
- Put the science into Prieto Math & Science Academy. Our school is a member of the Lesson Study Alliance for which the primary emphasis is the teaching of math. I would like to see a transfer of some of the principles of lesson study applied to teaching science at Prieto.