Baselines and Ideas
This is my strongest area as a teacher. I have one master's degree in curriculum supervision and one master's degree in curriculum and instruction. During my career, I have been involved in writing curriculum, standards, benchmarks and common assessments. I have also helped to develop strategic plans, mission statements and goals. Finally, another colleague and I designed new report cards for the third and fourth grade students in our district. For a while, it become the template for other grades, too. Unfortunately, we have noticed a trend that after local teachers develop materials, they are replaced by commercially purchased materials. For instance, we spent two years writing math and reading curriculum and benchmarks. Then, the district administrators mandated that we use and follow all the material presented in our math and reading textbooks.
How can we remain professionals who decide what are the best methods for teaching our particular students?
Smart Goal
By the end of the first quarter of the fall 2011 school year, I will have completed and implemented standards based grading and reporting of grades for the entire 6th grade mathematics curriculum.
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