Professional Learning Communities & My Learning Plan Laconia School District

1. Professional Learning Communities&My Learning PlanLaconia School District

2. Our purpose • To provide clarification of the goal setting process toward improving our professional development process toward improving student performance.

3. Professional Learning Communities • Meeting Norms • SMART Goals • Collaborative focus on • Professional Learning • Student Learning

4. MLP - Goal Setting • Professional Development • Instructional Impact • Student Learning Impact

5. Professional Development • What professional development activity will you participate in that will support your learning process? • Graduate Course • Book Study • Collaborative Research • Online Course

6. Instructional Impact • How will this professional learning impact your instructional practices? What is the point of your learning? • Improve student writing performance • Develop student spatial reasoning • Increase student technology use • Foster student engagement

7. Student Learning Impact • How will you assess the impact on student learning? Pre-test and post-test measures are critical. • NWEA • AIMSweb • Formative Assessments • Individual Student Data

8. Sample Goals • To participate in professional development with Mahesh Sharma • (Professional Development) • to further my knowledge of various teaching strategies so that my students may achieve at higher levels in mathematics in computation and algebra skills • (Instructional Impact) • as measured by NWEA. • (Student Learning)

9. Sample Goals • I will do professional research on how to increase self-esteem in young girls • (Professional Development) • through exercise, sport and wellness activities so I can use this when working with a small group of girls • (Instructional Impact) • and strive to have at least 50% of them increase their self-esteem and knowledge of how to help themselves to do this through a pre-test and a post-test. • (Student Learning)

10. Sample Goals • To learn how to effectively implement Discrete Trial methods to help autistic students learn to read simple books. • (Professional Development) • My goal is to teach a student with special education needs sight words and additional nouns and verbs using the Discrete Trial method. • (Instructional Impact) • My goal is to achieve 80% accuracy with these words. • (Student Learning)

11. Sample Goals • I will expand my knowledge of Whole Brain Teaching techniques • (Professional Development) • which incorporates kinesthetic, visual and auditory learning to improve student understanding of science concepts. • (Instructional Impact) • I will continue to assess, and improve instruction though analysis of student performance on internally developed pre/post test and NECAP scores. • (Student Learning)

12. Sample Goals • Through researching writingfix.com, going to a workshop on early/emergent writing, reading the 6+1 Traits book, and by conducting at least 2 lesson studies • (Professional Development) • my goal is to incorporate the Writing Sequence outlined by Jodi Black's writingfix.com to increase beginning writing skills in each of the 6+1 writing traits. • (Instructional Impact) • It will be measured by 80% of my students moving up at least one level in four of the six traits included on the 6+1 Writing Rubric for Beginning Writers • (Student Learning)

13. Sample Goals • I will actively participate in a Professional Learning Community in order to explore means of integrating technology • (Professional Development) • into my instruction to increase student engagement. • (Instructional Impact) • I will develop four summative assessments for my classes that assess technology use. • (Student Learning)

14. Resources • My Learning Plan • Karen Switzer • Administrators • Colleagues

15. Questions