My concerns at this point at a program point of view

well I looked at the data for proficiency and progress. The proficiency for my caseload looks really good. I know that Courtney has said she gives them a zero if they have to redo it. That would make her data look worst.

The progress does not look good. I would like to see many more students closer to 60%. I think this may be a two part problem. The demands of the program. This program is demanding as public school. A rigorous pace is a cultural problem for many of our students. The mosque cohort is used to working year round. The homeschoolers are not used to deadlines. Many students have learning, attention or behavior issues that impend progress. That being said there is about 10% that are moving at an accelerated pace.
my next concern is honesty. Seeing work in student hand writing does help assure the work is authenticate. Often times the work is typed and not in student vocabulary. I have had a student turn in one piece of writing that is handwritten and below grade level. Hand was misspelled. The next assignment was typed with graphic, off subject with a high vocabulary. Mrs, C has emailed me twice that her daughter is looking up looking up answers on the internet and printing out the test as she does the lessons. Of course I wonder why the parent allows this.

In order to be a good Learning Guide you need two elements: competency and commitment. Competency can be taught. The program is scripted. I am here as a certified teacher. But commitment cannot be taught it must be there or be inspired. One colleague drew attention to the fact that commitment can be flipped instantly while competency takes more time. Learning Guide must be really committed. Not just in words.

Those are my three concerns.

Where am I?

Currently I feel that I have being on line mentor teacher down. The job is not over but I need to keep up my professional learning. My focus is on the next year already. What can I do to expand my learning? What will my job be? I would really like to be more than just a teacher. and the money is an issue.

I have been toying with the amount of logging I do in my personal spreadsheet. My rule is if the parent blew up what would i need to have documented to accurately record what was going on.

But the basics of running this job, I feel like I have masters. And I am looking for more growth.

Getting my geek on!

So a great thing just happened. My Director called me to talk about data. Yeah I am that geek. We were talking about the seat time waiver and the data the state requires. Since we are a pilot we only get a year at a time seat time waiver.
Based on what Carol said, it's the time of the year when the state starts looking for results on how we are doing.
For the seat time waiver they data showing proficiency. But you have to temper that with progress data. A student could have an 100% on test 20. HOwever that is only 25% done with a year of school in 50% of the year.
Beyond the seat time waiver data, we talked about the Meap data and where we could see the "new" to the system .
I can see that Carol is getting ready to do some pretty big presentations. I hope that I can be a fly on the wall.
I was please Carol called me when she needed someone to use as a sounding board for data. I also liked being part of an administrative conversation. That's where my current interest lies.

take aways from class

Ahhs
textbooks can be jigsawed run classroom reading like book club
principles evaluate differently todd looks at language jennifer looks at the culture so many look at the behavior management
character is what will sort you to rise to the top in your organization
planting seeds to better than mandating

Also Strike you need to redo this to great start here are some pointers to build on this examples

2/4/13

I am just learning about blogging. I thought it would keep the date of my drafts. But I think it might updated date of the post to the publish dates not the create date. Since these are very much in the moment thoughts, I must remember to date these posts.