October 2015 archive

Standard 2: Staff Development Project

Through my data analysis of our school’s SIP, I was able to identify the All-boys program as an area of improvement. Through my 5 years of experience as an All-boys teacher, I have seen many of our veteran teachers leave the All-boys program to seek other opportunities. Since the majority of our All-boys teachers have …

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Standard 1: SIP member

As Woodbridge Middle School’s SIP member, I was an active participant in setting and improving on our improvement targets. Periodically, throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall we would meet together as a committee and discuss our school’s data and report from the State. When analyzing the data, we compared our data/AMO’s to similar regional schools. …

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Standard 2: Implement and Evaluate SIP

Prior to starting my internship experience, I was a participant in Woodbridge Middle School’s School Improvement Plan committee. After developing my own SIP, I have used my own data analysis to become a more active participant and offer varying improvement targets and proposals. While looking at our school’s SOL data, I have noted that our …

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Standard 5: SPED Placement Meetings

Throughout the late summer and early fall, Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary conducted several special education placement meetings. My supervisor believed these meetings would be “controversial” and would be good experiences. During these meetings, I acted as an observer by watching how the administrators conducted the meeting and dealt with hostile parents.  Through my observations, I learned …

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