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■My induction experience has helped me open my mind to more methods of teaching. Based on how my students learn, I have learned to change my curriculum to make it easier for them to understand while at the same time engaging them in a fun way. I enjoyed the resources that were given to us in the cycles because I was able to explore many of them and find what fit for my students. Needing to reflect during each cycle helped so that I could stop and see how I was doing, what I needed to change and figure out how I could change that. Having a great induction coach helped me improve my teaching skills so I can better teach to each ability.

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When I reviewed my initial self-assessment and compared it to my final self-assessment I noticed that in my initial I rated myself as exploring for all topics.

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Year 1 Initial  CSTP Self-Assessment.pdf

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When I reviewed my final self-assessment I rated myself as applying on all topics

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■How have you changed, what are you most proud of?

–This year I’m most proud of the way I introduced common core curriculum into my SAI math and language arts classes. Having the opportunity to push into general education classes first semester gave me the opportunity not only to work side by side with a general education teacher but also the opportunity to observe their class and how they teach. I was then able to use that in my own classroom and modify it to a pace where my student’s were able to understand.

■Where are your opportunities for continuous improvement?

–I believe that my opportunity for improvement would be in assessing students for learning. Currently I assess my student learning by giving quizzes on math lessons and math notes and giving them comprehension quizzes as well. I would like to start a record for each student that they can keep throughout the semester so that we can both track their growth in math and language arts.

■After a year of job-embedded support, what are your areas of strength?

–I believe that my area of strength is in planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students. This year in both math and language arts I have found different methods of teaching common core standards in a way that my students would understand.

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■A new strategy that I used this year was in writing. All of my caseload had writing and comprehension goals where they need to know how to pull a citation from a passage and speak on it. Many of my students struggled with this so I introduced a new strategy called “building better response answers”.

■With this, my students each had their own sheet where they would write down the response question I would give them. Then there was a part where they could write and at the bottom they had a rubric to follow. Along with following the rubric, they needed to go back and underline in different colors where they completed that part of the rubric. This not only helped me check for understanding but it made them responsible in making sure everything from the rubric was included.

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■Another new strategy was implementing some mindfulness videos into the beginning of one of my classes to see if behavior in specific students improved.

–http://www.cosmickids.com/read/mindfulness-meditation-videos-kids/

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■Continue improving introduction to common core curriculum in SAI classes

■Find new ways to assess students

■Keep data on student assessments to track progress

■Manage personal and professional life properly