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Monday, January 27, 2014
"Share your thoughts on the Professional Development Day."
22 comments:
Anonymous
said...
It was a Common Core sales pitch. Did nothing to improve instruction or build confidence and competence when observations and evaluations are still on overdrive. Principals have their "look for" checklist and they have no courage to step off the rubric page or defend their staff.
It was a Common Core sales pitch. Did nothing to improve instruction or build confidence and competence when observations and evaluations are still on overdrive. Principals have their "look for" checklist and they have no courage to step off the rubric page. We are also to believe that our principals are being evaluated with a similar rigor rubric. Who is doing these observations?
Okay I have thought, paired and shared and this is what my partner about pd day:
Think/Pair/Share...a great skill we can only teach if students already get how to do it because rigor isn't about social learning, it is only about passing high stakes tests and academic learning, so it is not a skill taught in isolation, even though it is in many CCSS standards???
Anchored in text... oh, but that means teachers buy their own nonfiction text because there is not enough money for science and social textbooks at the elementary level? We get it... science is inquiry based, so we don't need textbooks we just need to buy our own supplies for labs?
Teachers are important... oh, so is that why you are firing so many at NBHS or not replacing those on medical leave (due to stress from being terrorized and/or victimized) with qualified teachers?
By the way...why does the entire elementary level have the same open response for narrative writing when you explicitly stated that is not the model for rigor?
Oh and thank you for modeling how to stop us all from talking and being off task. Would you please teach the same to PRAB? We just don't get why you have so many re-teach activities on rigor. Perhaps differentiation is necessary for our 40% that don't get it yet... Obviously, your jobs should be dependent on the results..whaddya think? Just askin'!
I was disappointed that as a guidance counselor I wasn't able to meet with my fellow counselors at Keith this morning for PD that would have been more relevant to my profession and certification needs. I don't understand why Roosevelt had to attend the morning session at Normandin with the teachers.
Our PD today, was very helpful to us. We asked for approval to use this PD to collaborate with the other teachers horizontally and vertically from our own grade level. We were able to meet and discuss the major gaps and some overlapping areas on our curriculum maps along with the Common Core Standards. We also looked at how this aligns with the report cards(it doesn't).
We brought the writing benchmark and the school writing assessments to our vertical and horizontal partners and looked at a sample of a high, medium and low and came to an agreement for the students of grades 3-5 to use the same checklist to make sure that all strategies are being used and it will be familiar to them throughout the MCAS grades, in our school. This will alleviate any confusion as they move on throughout the grades.
We felt this was very helpful to us and that finally, someone listened, and let us have a successful and eye-opening PD.
I wish that every school had the opportunity to create their own PD. It was a worthwhile day. We are confident that we know what is best for our students to continue being successful and to build a stronger foundation from K-5.
Thank you to our principal for asking for this to be approved, and believing and trusting that we know, what is best for our students.
Here is an idea. Instead of providing us with a useless chat about the "think, pair, share" and other techniques that we do not have the technology or resources to support,why not provide us with the evaluation training? We got about a week's notice that they were having the training. We have after-school clubs and various other commitments after-school that make it difficult for us to travel to the other end of the city to attend a meeting. What would have been more helpful is to use a PD slot time to provide training. It involved our evaluations and it seems that these evaluations are all over the map. Not one school has the same evaluation set-up.
The PD was so uninspiring and lacked professional development. When I looked around the room all I saw was despair and hopelessness. The money spent here could have been spent on so badly needed resources.
It would have been more productive to be in the classroom. Our meeting was long, boring, and not informative, just perfect teachers teaching perfect students in a perfect video. Anyone have feedback?
The day was a complete waste of time. All we learned was that the "pseudo" English department head will have us all teaching English all of the time and that our own subjects will have to take a back seat to her precious literacy initiative. As for the meeting, the previous post is absolutely right about it. Boring and useless. Another great video with a perfect teacher and perfect kids. Something to aspire to I guess.
I was totally upset about the day. I watched not 1 or 2 but 5 yes 5 administrative personnel sit and watch as we listened to a web cast on Dibles. Here's a concept lets make the people with titles prove their worth as much as we teachers are being forced to prove ours! How can their jobs be so important that they can afford to waste 4 hrs sitting back doing nothing? We can't even take our classes to the bathroom ! Where was their RIGOR !?
People have to justify their positions don't forget. If the Teachers were just left to teach and do what they do best, how could the positions at the top be justified? Folks, it is all a scam. For those of us that went to school a long time ago, did we all turn out as losers and screw ups without all of this nonsense that we have to deal with today? I think not. Hoping and praying for the day when common sense comes back into our schools.
If the planning and preparation for the latest development day took one person any longer than three days to prepare and then get approved by PRAB then start replacing PRAB personnel before looking at NBHS staff. The consensus of the teachers that I've spoken to have said that it was bad regardless of the location. I agree with the person who wrote that teachers 's expressions were sad and unenthusiastic at best. If anyone believes that morale is anything but somber please share it with us. We need the boost.
PD at NBHS was a stroking to the "pseudo" ELA department chair. Will she get a Pia job? She is well on her way. But now we all need to teach English? If the ELA teachers did their jobs, the rest of us could teach our subjects. And when ELAscores go up, will they say it's because of all of the rest of us, or because ELA teachers are so great? I suspect the latter.
When is the district going to do content area pd? Many of us need to recertify and yet we are lacking in pd from district. We go to outside sources on our own dime, but.then questioned if we take a personal day. We are sick to death of literacy!
Blaming the ELA teachers is non-productive and diversive. It is not their fault that all the other subject matter hinges on literacy. Math isn't even math anymore! A kid that cannot read (for whatever reason) can't access the curriculum in any subject. In that regard, I see their point. Nevertheless, bashing colleagues that are doing their jobs doesn't accomplish anything. Except to divide and conquer! Stay unified!
The people at PRAB think they are better than us they consider themselves the elite and we are just their minions.Durkin probably says"Let them eat cake".
22 comments:
It was a Common Core sales pitch. Did nothing to improve instruction or build confidence and competence when observations and evaluations are still on overdrive. Principals have their "look for" checklist and they have no courage to step off the rubric page or defend their staff.
It was a Common Core sales pitch. Did nothing to improve instruction or build confidence and competence when observations and evaluations are still on overdrive. Principals have their "look for" checklist and they have no courage to step off the rubric page. We are also to believe that our principals are being evaluated with a similar rigor rubric. Who is doing these observations?
Okay I have thought, paired and shared and this is what my partner about pd day:
Think/Pair/Share...a great skill we can only teach if students already get how to do it because rigor isn't about social learning, it is only about passing high stakes tests and academic learning, so it is not a skill taught in isolation, even though it is in many CCSS standards???
Anchored in text... oh, but that means teachers buy their own nonfiction text because there is not enough money for science and social textbooks at the elementary level? We get it... science is inquiry based, so we don't need textbooks we just need to buy our own supplies for labs?
Teachers are important... oh, so is that why you are firing so many at NBHS or not replacing those on medical leave (due to stress from being terrorized and/or victimized) with qualified teachers?
By the way...why does the entire elementary level have the same open response for narrative writing when you explicitly stated that is not the model for rigor?
Oh and thank you for modeling how to stop us all from talking and being off task. Would you please teach the same to PRAB? We just don't get why you have so many re-teach activities on rigor. Perhaps differentiation is necessary for our 40% that don't get it yet... Obviously, your jobs should be dependent on the results..whaddya think? Just askin'!
I was disappointed that as a guidance counselor I wasn't able to meet with my fellow counselors at Keith this morning for PD that would have been more relevant to my profession and certification needs. I don't understand why Roosevelt had to attend the morning session at Normandin with the teachers.
One word...JOKE
Our PD today, was very helpful to us. We asked for approval to use this PD to collaborate with the other teachers horizontally and vertically from our own grade level. We were able to meet and discuss the major gaps and some overlapping areas on our curriculum maps along with the Common Core Standards. We also looked at how this aligns with the report cards(it doesn't).
We brought the writing benchmark and the school writing assessments to our vertical and horizontal partners and looked at a sample of a high, medium and low and came to an agreement for the students of grades 3-5 to use the same checklist to make sure that all strategies are being used and it will be familiar to them throughout the MCAS grades, in our school. This will alleviate any confusion as they move on throughout the grades.
We felt this was very helpful to us and that finally, someone listened, and let us have a successful and eye-opening PD.
I wish that every school had the opportunity to create their own PD. It was a worthwhile day. We are confident that we know what is best for our students to continue being successful and to build a stronger foundation from K-5.
Thank you to our principal for asking for this to be approved, and believing and trusting that we know, what is best for our students.
Here is an idea. Instead of providing us with a useless chat about the "think, pair, share" and other techniques that we do not have the technology or resources to support,why not provide us with the evaluation training? We got about a week's notice that they were having the training. We have after-school clubs and various other commitments after-school that make it difficult for us to travel to the other end of the city to attend a meeting. What would have been more helpful is to use a PD slot time to provide training. It involved our evaluations and it seems that these evaluations are all over the map. Not one school has the same evaluation set-up.
The PD was so uninspiring and lacked professional development. When I looked around the room all I saw was despair and hopelessness. The money spent here could have been spent on so badly needed resources.
It would have been more productive to be in the classroom. Our meeting was long, boring, and not informative, just perfect teachers teaching perfect students in a perfect video. Anyone have feedback?
The day was a complete waste of time. All we learned was that the "pseudo" English department head will have us all teaching English all of the time and that our own subjects will have to take a back seat to her precious literacy initiative.
As for the meeting, the previous post is absolutely right about it. Boring and useless. Another great video with a perfect teacher and perfect kids. Something to aspire to I guess.
I was totally upset about the day. I watched not 1 or 2 but 5 yes 5 administrative personnel sit and watch as we listened to a web cast on Dibles. Here's a concept lets make the people with titles prove their worth as much as we teachers are being forced to prove ours! How can their jobs be so important that they can afford to waste 4 hrs sitting back doing nothing? We can't even take our classes to the bathroom ! Where was their RIGOR !?
People have to justify their positions don't forget. If the Teachers were just left to teach and do what they do best, how could the positions at the top be justified? Folks, it is all a scam. For those of us that went to school a long time ago, did we all turn out as losers and screw ups without all of this nonsense that we have to deal with today? I think not. Hoping and praying for the day when common sense comes back into our schools.
Saw some people fighting back tears at the PD. This is what this has come to? When will this nonsense end?
If the planning and preparation for the latest development day took one person any longer than three days to prepare and then get approved by PRAB then start replacing PRAB personnel before looking at NBHS staff. The consensus of the teachers that I've spoken to have said that it was bad regardless of the location. I agree with the person who wrote that teachers 's expressions were sad and unenthusiastic at best. If anyone believes that morale is anything but somber please share it with us. We need the boost.
Kindergarten video at the middle school PD. Is this how to show rigor? What a joke!
We did all the work..pay me extra....
PD at NBHS was a stroking to the "pseudo" ELA department chair. Will she get a Pia job? She is well on her way. But now we all need to teach English? If the ELA teachers did their jobs, the rest of us could teach our subjects. And when ELAscores go up, will they say it's because of all of the rest of us, or because ELA teachers are so great? I suspect the latter.
Fu*&$€£<¿¤ waste of time! We haven't had good pd since Sue Crook was director of pd
When is the district going to do content area pd? Many of us need to recertify and yet we are lacking in pd from district. We go to outside sources on our own dime, but.then questioned if we take a personal day. We are sick to death of literacy!
Blaming the ELA teachers is non-productive and diversive. It is not their fault that all the other subject matter hinges on literacy. Math isn't even math anymore! A kid that cannot read (for whatever reason) can't access the curriculum in any subject. In that regard, I see their point. Nevertheless, bashing colleagues that are doing their jobs doesn't accomplish anything. Except to divide and conquer! Stay unified!
The people at PRAB think they are better than us they consider themselves the elite and we are just their minions.Durkin probably says"Let them eat cake".
That is so funny,but probably true......most of my colleagues believe the are not valued.
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