Several weeks ago I shared with you the process that we as a faculty went through to develop a one page set of goals for this year. It was certainly an empowering process. I would like to share our goals with you. I will also be sharing these goals at PTA meeting tomorrow night as well as our 2011 ARMT+ test scores. I am so excited about our goals because they are a work in progress. They are not just words on a piece of paper, but a working document for ourselves as well as the students. Very soon we will be asking some of you to come in and go through a similar process that we went through in order to look at parent realities and then determine parent goals and responsibilites. On Tuesday of last week, we had our first Instructional Meeting. It was a pretty inspiring meeting. We committed to the goals below and talked about the impact we have on our students. I am excited because this year will be a journey and at the end of this journey we will be a school of impact, a school of distinction, a school of greatness.
Instructional Targets
School
Climate
Teacher
will:
- Create a safe,
purposeful, engaging 21st Century learning environment.
- Take an active role
by sharing knowledge for professional development and connect across grade
levels.
- Convey and model
positive character traits and high expectations.
Student
will:
- Demonstrate respect.
- Demonstrate
leadership qualities: responsibility, competence, confidence and
independence, both academically and socially.
Planning
Teacher
will:
- Display student friendly learning targets from Common Core Standards.
·
Incorporate
21st Century Teaching Tools.
·
Provide
differentiated instruction.
Student
will:
- Understand and
demonstrate awareness of learning targets.
- Set personal learning
goals.
Instruction
Teacher
will:
- Foster higher order
thinking skills.
- Help students make
connections with real life skills.
- Model and guide
respectful, effective communication.
Student
will:
- Work collaboratively
to build knowledge and comprehension.
- Make connections with
academic and real life situations.
- Actively engage in
their own learning.
Assessment
Teacher
will:
- Use formative
assessment to guide instruction.
- Celebrate student
successes for meeting high expectations.
- Create assignments
and assessments from content standards.
Student
will
- Develop ownership by
actively participating in lessons.
- Demonstrate content
knowledge.
- Reflect and adjust to
meet personal learning goals.
