Professional Goals: Taylor Dunning-Horvath
Goal 1:
To work on developing classroom
management skills
Rationale:
During the first few weeks of PSIII I have
been having problems maintaining control of
my grade 9 class and would like to work
towards gaining skills that will help me
maintain control of my grade 9s.
Timeline:
Throughout the course of the fall semester I
hope to make steady improvements
Conversations weekly about how
management has been going with UC.
Strategies:
-researching strategies for dealing with
particular issues
-conversations with teacher mentor and other
staff
-observing other teacher’s practices to gain
ideas about how to deal with management
issues
-conversations with other staff that teach 9-6
to see how they manage their classroom
-regular check ins with UC
Evidence:
Evidence of goal achievement will be
demonstrated by the ability to maintain
control throughout a lesson and a reduction
of management issues.
Collaborators:
-teacher mentor
-other staff (particularly that teach grade 9 as
well)
-other staff that teach 9-6
-UC
Goal 2:
To develop engaging classroom activities that
get students excited to learn about
science/physics
Rationale:
Over the first few weeks of PSIII I feel that my
lessons have become stagnant as I Teach
students and then they do work. I would like
to add more activities to my lesson to help
engage students in learning.
Timeline:
Throughout the semester I hope to make
improvements by gradually adding more and
more activity based learning as I become
more confident.
End of each class reflection of how activities
worked to engage, motivate, and inspire
students to learn and about how effective that
learning may have been.
Strategies:
-end of each class reflection of how activities
worked to engage, motivate, and inspire
students to learn and about how effective that
learning may have been.
-research activities that other teachers do
online
-reach out to Doug Checkley for ideas about
demonstrations/mini labs
-reach out to other staff members to see what
their ideas they may have
Evidence:
Evidence of goal achievement will be
demonstrated by an increase in my
confidence and use of classroom activities to
have students learn rather than simple
lectures and notes.
Collaborators:
-Doug Checkley (University Science C and I
Instructor)
-other staff members