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Elm - 490 Step Standard 7

This document outlines a teacher's short-term goals to improve their instructional practice based on a recent instructional unit. The teacher identifies three goals: 1) To ask more higher-order thinking questions that require deeper student thinking; 2) To improve gaining and maintaining complete class attention before moving lessons forward; and 3) To improve strategies for teaching foundational literacy skills like phonics. For each goal, the teacher describes their plan to achieve it through actions like preparing questions in advance, observing co-teachers, and researching best practices online.

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Elm - 490 Step Standard 7

This document outlines a teacher's short-term goals to improve their instructional practice based on a recent instructional unit. The teacher identifies three goals: 1) To ask more higher-order thinking questions that require deeper student thinking; 2) To improve gaining and maintaining complete class attention before moving lessons forward; and 3) To improve strategies for teaching foundational literacy skills like phonics. For each goal, the teacher describes their plan to achieve it through actions like preparing questions in advance, observing co-teachers, and researching best practices online.

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STEP Standard 7 – Reflecting on Instruction to Improve Student

Progress
Improved Practice Based on the Unit of Study
Based on the experience of developing and delivering your instructional unit, list three short-
term goals to improve specific areas of your teaching practice based on the unit of instruction
and describe your plan to reach each short-term goal.

Plan to Reach the Goal (i.e., professional


Short-Term Goal development, research on the Internet,
observation of a veteran teacher, etc.)
1. I would like to ask more DOK I will prepare questions in advance before
clarifying questions during lesson time giving the lesson. I will give myself more
that require the students to think planning time to do this so that I can fully
deeper. I will work on asking less develop quality questions.
yes/no questions.

2. I would like to work on having I will continue to observe my co teacher and


complete class attention before I move try to implement the same behavior
on in my lessons. Along with this I management techniques that she does. I will
would like to develop strategies to work on consistency with getting full class
stop my students from interrupting attention before I move on in a lesson by
and calling out. using the same strategies my co teacher uses.

3. I would like to improve strategies for My plan is to research on the Internet


teaching phonics, blending, letter different ways on how to teach phonics
sounds, first sound fluency, vowels instruction. I would especially love to
and other letter work. improve on whole body teaching and using
manipulatives so the students are interested
and better engaged.

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