Semester Evaluation_Spring 2017_Lincoln MENTORS: Caitlyn Ferber, Margaret Poland, Jason Wait, Charity Freeman OFF TEAM: Steve McMahon AREAS OF STRENGTI aan aes a broad range of isiretionl Stategies and approaches to meet the unique aa eth lamers, He engages student with compelling visuals, movement recs and moe. Ryan often includes technology inhi lessons through txt-o~ y games, and more. He connects instruction to students? ‘EAM MEMRRR: Julia White, Yosung Song speech software, jeopar background knowledge while building new knowledge, Ryan is excited and wanting to be involved with the students and lessons. It’s great the nitiative and pull a small group every day and parallel teach. pectations for himself and goes the extra mile to make colorful, way Ryan tak «Ryan sets high exciting, and well thought out lessons for the students. Ryan establishes clear learning objectives and plans materials that are well aligned withthe learning objectives. «Ryan upholds professional standards with both colleagues and students, He has built relationships with students early on ani coutinued to develop them through one on one conferences and positive praise/reinforcement, Rysn’s attended school functions after school. Comments: Ryan has been planning and implementing instruction in my classroom for the last 2 wees Prior to that he was co-teaching in both parallel teaching and station teaching models. - Ryan has been doing an EXCELLENT job. He plans engaging lessons that are aligned with students? needs. He differentiates for small groups and utilizes technology-based resources to motivate students, He always remains a calm, even tone with students and has taken the time to build relationships with key students, He has always been eager to collaborate, provide new instructional ideas, nd communicates any concerns. Ryan is able to relate to the kids on tw i pop cultures, actively engages with the kids, will go around and see who needs the most help. Pee ; Notes from student:tmid-Semester Evaluation_Spring 2017_Lincoln AREAS THAT ARE STILL DEVELOPING: «Understands how to comnect concepts across disciplines, and engages learners in critical and innovative thinking and collaborative problem solving related to real world contexts © Going forward, how can you connect concepts across ELA and Science? This could be a goal for the next 4 weeks. «Ryan needs to think critically about how to include assessment into every lesson. Paying attention to how different teachers use formative and summative assessments will help you develop more concrete assessment strategies. © Howare you currently tracking assessment? ‘© What could work in your own classroom? © How will you track students’ assessment towards class grades and IEP goals? © Don’t provide students with the answers; provide scaffolding questions for students to look into the text to find the answers. «Thinking critically into the futu. create a behavior ‘anagement system that works for you. Be sure to communicate learning goels to stude ‘s at the beginning of class and have them self-assess if they met the learning goals Consider your presence in the room. You're always ‘fering a helping hand and working with target students, but how would your presence have to adapt if were only you in the classroom? «Administrative side of the job: Much of what a special education teacher does is behind the scenes. It would be great if you helped with student IEPs, FBAs, BIPs and goal monitoring. Many teachers have offered these opportunities and it would be extremely beneficial to your future career if you took advantage. Jump in more: During CT whole group instruction if you see students are struggling, feel free to say something or if you have a better way of phrasing something say it. Planning/Modifications: It would be awesome if you modified plans for CT section. Practice lessons/experiments before presenting them: This will make you aware of “holes” in the lesson, time management, how interesting/attention grabbing the lesson is, and if you'll need additional supplies for experiments and/or work out the kinks in the experiments, Notes from student: