"What are your goals for Spring 2014? What are 3 things that you want to improve or initiate within your classroom this semester? How can your Cadre Leader support you with these goals?"
There are many things that I would like to improve this semester, but one of my main goals is to have better classroom management. I need to be more consistent with giving out consequences and need to make sure that I always have clear expectations. Another goal I have is to create better relationships with all of my students. Last semester I knew a decent amount of my students well, but I want to try to build those relationships with all of my students. I would like to do an activity that I started at the end of last semester: Letter to the Teacher Fridays. I had students write me letters about whatever they wanted during the first 10 minutes of Friday lessons. I learned a lot about my students this way and got good feedback about the class. Finally, I am going to give more exit tickets in all my classes in order to gauge whether or not students are mastering the material. Last semester I did not give many quizzes and would mostly find out from tests if students understood the material. Quizzes/exit tickets will be a good way for both students and myself to see the level of mastery.
