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LINCOLN SCHOOL ELEMENTARY PROFESSIONAL GROWTH PLAN

2014-2015
Teacher: Maria Jose Phillips Picado

Grade: Pre-Kinder

Department: Preschool

In order to support continuous professional improvement, each teacher will develop actions to meet school goals. Please
work with your Grade Level Leader Coordinator to develop the action plan with documentation in the following areas:
Focus
Area/Goals
Develop
school
wide use of a
variety of test and
assessment data
(MAP, DRA, writing
rubrics,
quizzes,
performance
tasks, ect) to close
achievement gaps
and advance best
practices.
MAP Expectations:
50%
of
the
students
will
meet
their
target growth
on the Math
and
Reading
MAP
Assessments
(Fall to Spring).
100% of target
growth will be

Strategies

Anecdotal Records
Centers are planned to
cover 8 different skills
useful to assess in a
natural way.
Checklists
Observation
Differentiated
instruction (enrichment
and re-teaching)
Assessment
worksheets
Grouping
students
according to needs,
strengths and areas to
improve.
Pre-reading skills and
Number identification
to number 13.

Results and
documentation
Photos
Journal
HWT workbooks

Mid -year 2014


Checklists
were
not used on the
first
semester
because I didnt
have
them
prepared at the
time
of
the
assessment;
all
the
information
was recorded on a
record book. This
is a personal goal
for
the
next
semester.
I couldnt re-teach
this semester as
much
as
I
wouldve liked to.
This was because
I couldnt find the
appropriate time
to sit one on one
with the student

End of the year


2015
For
this
last
semester
I
accomplished one
of my goals and
began
to
use
checklists as a
tool to asses my
students.
I found some time
during
the
Montessori period
to re-teach some
of my students,
but
I
must
improve
the
planning of these
activities to make
it
more
meaningful.
Over the last six
months
the
students
demonstrated

met on MAP
Assessments.

Advance the use


of technology in
instruction,
planning and
communication,
including the use
of smartboards,

Online games in
centers
Weebly updates
(monthly)
Ipad applications
and
planning
(weekly)

Ipad planning
Atlas Rubicon
Photos
Videos
Daily communication with
parents

who needed it.


We
began
to
implement
the
new benchmarks
for
pre-reading
skills. On the first
semester only a
few
students
could
give
a
detailed
explanation
of
what they thought
was
going
to
happen
in the
story,
according
to the front cover.
At the end of this
semester all the
students
could
identify the parts
of the book and
only
5
kids
couldnt
define
the role of the
author and the
illustrator.
During
this
semester
we
couldnt use the
Splash into Pre-k
software because
we
were
still
getting used to

their
knowledge
of the author and
the
illustrators
role
during
reading
time.
It was also easy
for
them
to
identify
the
setting and the
characters of the
story.
It has been a
challenge for the
students
to
identify
the
number from 1 to
13. Only four of
my students will
exceed this last
semester
in
number
identification.

The
ipad
was
used
on
a
monthly
basis;
this
could
be
changed
for
a
weekly basis for
next year.

iPads and
PowerSchool.

Develop a culture
of
inquiry
with
students
to
promote
metacognition and
higher
thinking
skills; including the
implementation of
the principles of
Understanding by
Design and Project
Based
Learning

the new units and


materials. At the
same time we
didnt
use
the
Smart board very
often.

Daily
communication with
parents
Report Cards on
Powerschool
Smartboard
activities

Essential
questions
promote metacognition
Guessing games
Graphs
Predictions
Estimation

Higher
level
thinking/hands-on
activities
Exposure

Montessori
environment

Center products
Bulletin boards
Homework
Photos
Atlas Rubicon

Many
of
the
centers
planned
this first semester
allowed
the
students to make
predictions,
estimations
and
have higher level
thinking.
The students were
exposed
to
different

Atlas rubicon was


weekly
updated
with the learning
activities of the
week.
Weebly
was
updated
every
other week, with
the scoop of the
month,
school
calendar, articles
and games for the
students.
This
semester
the
smartboard
was
used more times,
but next year we
should
incorporate
it
more
in
our
learning centers.
The
hero
presentations
begun at the end
of the semester,
the students will
have
a
presentation as a
culminating
activity.
As a closure to
our
Service
Learning
Project

(PBL).
Expectations:
Develop
two
PBL Units that
meet
the
Lincoln
PBL
standards
in
Atlas Rubicon.

Implement
best
practices
to
develop character,
values and selfdiscipline
in
students, resulting
in
a
positive
learning
environment.

Word of the day and


name of the day.
Common
read
books

PBL:

Hero
Presentations
(videos)
Service Learning (Photos)

PBL:
Heroes
Service Learning Project

Classroom
Agreements
Literacy
based
problem solving
Character Building
Program
Positive
Reinforcement
STAR
calming
strategy
Service
Learning
Activities
IB
trait
of
the
month.

Wall of character
Students behavior during
transitions, recess
Sense of belonging

Montessori
materials chosen
according to the
units of study and
the
students
needs.

This first semester


we didnt post the
classroom
agreements,
we
talked about them
and
took
the
pictures but they
disappeared from
the
Ipad;
we
dedicated
more
time to the IB
learner
profile
traits and their
books.
We
planned
two
activities for each
semester
for
Service Learning.

the students will


go on a fieldtrip
with the students
of the school that
we helped this
year. The students
did two projects to
collect the money
donated
to
Association Suena
en Colores who
helps
students
from low-income
families.
This last semester
we completed the
Service Learning
project. The two
activities planned
for the year were
successful.
We
didnt
use
the
STAR
calming
strategy; this will
be a goal for next
year as well as
being
more
constant with the
IB
traits
and
bringing
them
more into class.
The
classroom
agreements were

posted above the


board.
Teacher Signature ________________________Date ___________Teacher Leader Signature__________________________ Date
_________
Administrator Signature ________________________________________________ Date ____________

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