I’ve been asked by the NQT mentors to prepare a list of my priorities. There’s lots I want to do, but I don’t want to burn out, its good to prioritise.
1) Moodle. Start moving some schemes of work onto the Open Source VLE as I teach them. This should aid planning and preparation in the future despite being quite time consuming. The benefits to the department could be large.
2) Assessment. I have done quite a lot of work on assessment sheets over the summer. I would like to see the benefit of this in terms of improved planning, marking and reporting. I would also like to get the kids to understand their assessment sheets and get more involved in improving their levels.
3) Planning and Reporting systems. I have also spent time thinking about the planning and marking systems (Excel based). I need to have these basic systems functioning well now I move onto full time table.
4) Time Management. I tend to plan the night before I teach. Ideally, I intend to evaluate and plan for next weeks lesson after school before going home. I must be ruthless in limiting my planning time. I always tend to spend too long creating resources/contexts.
5) Extra Curricular activities. I would like to start a radio/tv station for the school, but I should wait until Nov or even Jan before thinking about this. On the other hand. If I am just ploughing through curriculum, it might be a nice to do it earlier.
I wrote a Career Entry and Development Profile when I finished the Uni course in June, which outlines my strengths weaknesses and interests on entering the profession. I will publish that on the Blog over the weekend. As I understand it, the goal of the CDP is to provide a plan for development over the first couple of years.
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Update
I met with Cathy my NQT mentor she took 3 of the points and made an action plan in Word. I was pretty pleased with the meeting. I think Cathy is great. DRA-action plan.doc She also suggested that I chat with Nadia about electronic markbooks/assessment systems
[...] I just had to write some prof dev BS on a form. Rather than let it get lost in the system, which really WILL turn it into BS, I will post it here. I actually just looked at my post from September last year which outlined my goals for the year . Was useful in helping me write today. [...]