May Post

As we are beginning to come to the end of the school year already.. CRAZY, I wanted to take a look back at my professional development goal and reflect on how I felt this goal progressed throughout the year. My goal was related to my anacdotal records and really using them to plan strategy and guided reading groups and use them better to drive my instruction. I feel like I did accomplish most of my goal throughout the year. Kristin and I were able to make some really helpful notes as we read with students which then allowed us to meet every few weeks to develop small groups with students that were focused on the skills that we noticed needed practice. This worked really well for us this year and I felt much better about what I was writing down for my notes and about the skill that was going to be the focus in each group. I felt like the students had a better idea of their objective and I was really able to key in on those strategies that we were teaching in the small group settings. Of course there is always room for improvement and now it will be designing and finding a bigger of variety of lessons to teach with each skill focus.