1. Balance the “what” we teach with “how” we teach. Everything feels a little up in the air with some areas of our grade 6 curriculum. We don't have set units for the year for Reading, Writing, Grammar, and it makes the year feel somewhat scattered.

2. Use data to facilitate grade level team decisions regarding instructional needs. We sometimes skim over data and don't take the time to reflect and make changes to instruction.

   
   

   *On our team we have some very different teaching styles and while that is ok with day to day, it at times feels that we are all doing our own thing. Also at times we seem to agree on something but then all members do not follow through on agreements.

   
   

Build consistency across the grade level.

As a new LL, collaborate with TL Coordinator regularly.

Goal to build leadership skills in the context of international schools.

Evidence will be the trust built with a team that has the common interest of the student success.

"facilitates consistent grade level meetings"

To work on clear communication by having consistent meetings, PLC agenda, building teamwork and a cohesiveness.

"uses data to facilitate grade level team decisions regarding instructional needs"

Use data and work samples regularly to distiguish what our students need, what we as educators need to do to help our students learn and grow. This will also help our grading for report cards to be streamlined.

Our team has lots of ideas, but I feel like it is based on what always has been done, not what necessarily students need. Keeping our team focused on data and student´s needs while trying to keep us on the same page in what we use to teach students. And that what we use may be something totally new and not what has always been used .

Fortalezas:

• Experiencia de años sobre contenidos y conocimientos por grado, así como manejo de grupos y alumnos.

• Experiencia en mejora de niveles de lectura y escritura.

• Estructura y organización para el alumnado.

• Alineación de estándares.

Área de impacto para el equipo:

• Implementación de tecnología

• Aprendizaje centrado en el alumno

• PBL

• Estandarizar y nivelar pruebas de SEP

• Documentación

2. balances the “what” we teach (standards, mindsets, dispositions etc) with “how” we teach

(pedagogy & instructional strategies)

The specialist teachers need to find a way to collect data, also we need to make sure our activities are closely aligned with the projects to avoid doing meaningless work.

• Highly cooperative

• Willing and able to share ideas

• Organized and prepared

• High expectations and goals

Challenges

• Onboarding new curriculum

• Integrating new team member with year schedule/events/cultures of learning

Group Growth

• Streamlining questions and solutions to tedious unknowns in learning communications

• Enhancing scheduling, cultural, and social momentum

Expectations

1. Asking for further PD and implementation of training to support educational goals and school values.

2. Balancing protocol to meet educational expectations.

Evidence TBD

• Documentation and running notes of changes and implementation

• PLC documents reflecting growth, understanding of team expectations, and tracking successes and failures

Regular PLC meetings, following protocols, and using data to make decisions.

Support and Collaborate regularly with the curriculum team and principal to implement PBL and new curriculum practices

Supports and designs interdisciplinary, student-centered projects

Challenges:

So many new changes this year: new technology, new daily schedule, new curriculums, assessments, and possibly some new report card standards

Keeping up with the new information, balancing the how we teach, with the what we teach, with the admin´s expectations, they are not always aligned

Group growth:

using technology more effectively in the classroom with students

better student-centered science experiences

student-centered exhibitions where they document their process and explain about it

Evidence:

explicit documentation of science and technology activities in the curriculum documents and PLC documents

Project exhibitions that include student explanations of technology and science.

personal goal:

work on asking questions to facilitate deeper thinking and group growth