Professional Development Reflection

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Professional Development Reflection Part 1: Checklist for an Effective Literacy Program I responded “Usually” to the following 5 statements and consider these to be highly relevant/important to my current/future position: 1. Read aloud regularly 2. Present a variety of comprehension strategies 3. Provide adequate practice/application 4. Provide systematic instruction in use of major cuing systems: phonological, syntactic, semantic 5. Use high-quality content-area texts I responded “Never” to the following 5 statements and consider these to be highly relevant/important to my current/future position: 1. Use think-alouds to make reading and writing processes explicit 2. Set or encourage the setting of purposes 3. Encourage self-selection of topics 4. Provide guided instruction in writing strategies 5. Provide opportunities to compose in a variety of forms Part 2: Goals (relate all of these to teaching literacy) 1. Where do I want to be professionally 5 years from now? After three years of teaching (all three years 1st grade), I am still establishing a “teaching routine” and figuring out the best strategies in the areas of teaching particular skills and behavior management. Therefore, my goals for five years from now would be much the same; continue teaching a self-contained classroom of 1st graders. I want to feel complete confidence and certainty in my teaching before “moving on” to something different. I feel as if it will take the next five years to feel this complete assurance. Possibly ten years from now I would like to tackle an upper primary grade level self-contained classroom or become a Reading and Writing Specialist. 2. What steps do I have to take to get there? This being my first graduate class, I feel that continuing my graduate program studies every term will help me become more knowledgeable in the areas of

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