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Standard V: Teachers are committed to continuous improvement and professional development.

While in George Washington University's Millennium Fellows program, I have learned the benefits of honest and frequent reflection. In my reflections, I evaluate my own instructional effectiveness, ultimately using my self-observations to plan specific future lessons for my classes, hopefully improving my teaching over time. I evaluate the success of my chosen instructional approaches, as well as the success students demonstrate in their assessments. I also enjoy working with colleagues and I appreciate the opportunities I have to learn from them.

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Artifacts
 
Lesson Plan with Reflection
 
Although I carefully plan lessons, sometimes the lessons and/or assessments do not work as planned.  The reflections I write on lesson plans demonstrate my willingness to continually reflect on my practice in promoting student learning and adjusts instruction accordingly.
 
I typically reflect on the effectiveness of my daily lesson plans.  Many time, I write the reflections the plans themselves. If part of a lesson did not work for one class, I will make adjustments to it before I teach the lesson again. This artifact is one example of my reflection. Here I adjusted the lesson for students who are not prepared for class by ensuring the lesson objective is clear in the final assessment.

Click here to view lesson plan.

Reflection Blog
 
During my first two months teaching at Northwest High School, I kept a reflection blog to reflect on my performance in the classroom.  This blog gave me the opportunity to write about behavior issues in the classroom and assess my own performance.  While writing, I recognize what behavior management techniques work with a particularly unruly class.
 
Although I do not keep up with this blog as regularly as I did when I began teaching, I plan to continue writing it and reflecting on each new class I teach.

Click here to view my blog.

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