When it comes to team collaboration at my school I think our math team is at the "norming" stage of team development. We meet every Friday morning to discuss what we are doing that is working and we also talk about what isn't working for specific students. We then share our own strategies for those students or even strategies we use for our students that may work for other students. This has become a normal thing and everyone on our team is comfortable with sharing how things are going in their classes. I would not put our team at the performing stage yet because we do not really have clear goals to achieve for each of these meetings. This is partly my fault as I am supposed to be the main team leader for these meetings as I am the head of the math department but I am still trying to grasp the culture and the styles of teaching that my peers are bringing to the table and I'm not entirely sure what main goals we should set to achieve. I also am at a roadblock where all the other team members see these meetings more of a requirement for their job rather than a place where great things can come from. I believe at the start of the next semester I will have our team set goals for each of our classes and then we will report what we have done to reach these goals and what is setting us back. I think that would make these meetings more effective and it would move our team into the performing stage.
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Towards the beginning one of my major goals was to develop a classroom that allows for all students to be successful. While I believe I have done well at the social and emotional side of setting up a positive environment for my students, I still need to work on delivering information in a multitude of different ways to reach as many students as possible. Something that my students have given me constant feedback on is my lack of summarizations of units and the lack of strong review sessions for the end unit summative assessments. Before I was giving only one to two days of review along with a review packet or a practice test. This led to my upper students and upper-middle students performing just find on the summative assessments but my lower-middle and lower students started to really struggle. As we move closer to finals week, our school does a week of finals where students only go to a few of their classes a day and those class periods are extended, I decided to take the next full week for a summarization of all the units we have gone over by creating formative assessment games via kahoots, creating review packets for each unit, and creating practice tests for each unit that we will complete the week before finals. Depending on how this plays out I think it would be better for my practice and for my students if I take more time to do summative reviews of each unit before jumping straight into the assessments. While this may take time from covering more material I think it will be beneficial in solidifying the knowledge of the material the students gain from each unit. We shall see how this plays out in the following two weeks.
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