Colorado Quality Standard 4: Professional Goals
Every year I strive to create professional goals for myself that will improve my practice. This year I set a goal to increase my progress monitoring fidelity by using AIMSweb monitoring, writing samples, and curriculum assessments. I have new curriculum that allows me to easily assess student learning through unit readings. Setting professional goals yearly is beneficial in focusing on one’s practice and continually improving teaching methods. Our administration requires a mid-year and year-end goals meeting to focus on specified goals and keep teachers on track.
Striving to better my progress monitoring methods through closer analysis of reading measures, writing samples, and unit assessments shows that I will change and improve my practice based on how students are doing. This demonstrates that I will adjust my plans according to what students need helps with (Element A), refine, and modify my practice as needed. Including progress monitoring as a professional goal for the year shows the correlation between my personal growth and formal goals (Element B).
Creating new goals yearly has helped me focus on one or two areas a year. It is easy to get stuck in a rut as educators. There are so many things we feel we have no control over, but setting personal goals yearly can help focus on what is really important – our classroom practice. My administrator holds mid-year goals review meetings with each staff member to ensure that the goals are kept in mind. I find this to be a helpful practice to help educators continue their growth and learning.
Striving to better my progress monitoring methods through closer analysis of reading measures, writing samples, and unit assessments shows that I will change and improve my practice based on how students are doing. This demonstrates that I will adjust my plans according to what students need helps with (Element A), refine, and modify my practice as needed. Including progress monitoring as a professional goal for the year shows the correlation between my personal growth and formal goals (Element B).
Creating new goals yearly has helped me focus on one or two areas a year. It is easy to get stuck in a rut as educators. There are so many things we feel we have no control over, but setting personal goals yearly can help focus on what is really important – our classroom practice. My administrator holds mid-year goals review meetings with each staff member to ensure that the goals are kept in mind. I find this to be a helpful practice to help educators continue their growth and learning.
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