Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Mastergoals
Mastergoals
Goals
Goal #1)
It is important to use assessment to evaluate what individual students know, versus evaluate how
well they learn. With this in mind, I find it necessary to employ pre-tests, frequent and varied
formative assessments, summative assessments that can be divided by standard assessed, and an
opportunity to re-test. With the multitude of platforms available for assessment, variety in
formative assessment should not be a challenge. Collaborating with department, faculty, and
administration to create an assessment format that is consistent across related disciplines will
lessen test anxiety and improve student performance. Using technology to assist in assessment
should aid in data collection, feedback, and communication with students, parents, and necessary
staff. Finally, in addition to students reaching goals set by me, or by state standards, students
should also have the opportunity to reach goals they set for themselves. This can be
accomplished by reviewing unit plans with students at the start of each unit, and can provide the
opportunity for students to include their goal in the unit plan.
Goal #2)
Teachers need to be able to reflect on their own teaching practices and understand that if students
are struggling, it may not be just because they are struggling. It could be that the teacher is
struggling to get the information to a student in a way that is best for that student. As a teacher I
want to have a system of knowing what Im doing, and why, and how it can benefit each student.
Once I know those, I want to be able to look back and see if my teaching did in fact help students
succeed more often than not, or if I need to change what Im doing to reach more students.
Goal #3)