CPD Briefing
September 2021
Curriculum and Professional Development: What does this department do?
Staff Inservice Day
Quotes from the Exit tickets:
- I think it would be helpful to spend time calibrating how we assess and measure student growth over time. Looking at data points on a spreadsheet aren't all that helpful for young children. It would be very helpful to create a system to look at student work longitudinally. If I could have started this year looking at writing samples, math work, etc, of last year's kindergarten class, that would have given me a jump on this year. For example, if we are administering 6+1 to the whole school, it would be easy to house those writing samples for reference.
- We had great conversation about the data and worked on not jumping into interpretations
- I really enjoy that protocol and feel it's a very valuable way to structure conversations about data. I would like to see my team begin to worry less about getting through major assessments and begin using student work as a foundation for our conversations about kids. For primary grades, student work can be more accurate and illuminating than end of unit assessments.
I would like to spend some more time with my department or a meeting concerning the students, involving the specialists and grade teachers. All comments located here.
RIS Professional Learning
Each teacher is given $15,000 baht this year for professional learning. Please take a look at our spreadsheet to see if there is a course/webinar/session you are interested in attending.
1. HOD gathered feedback from their teams on subscriptions
2. Kimberly met with AdCo to sort through requests and decisions
3. Kimberly met with Fr. Ole/Dr. Jim regarding budget
4. Finalization: Click on Subscriptions above
Learning, Learning Learning: An Article to Read (in your spare time lol)
Our understanding of how brain development changes during the early school years is expanding rapidly. Today’s generation of children is the first to grow up in a time when tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and wearable brain-wave sensors are widely available. At the same time, collaborative, open-science practices such as data sharing are becoming the norm. This has expanded our basic knowledge about the developing brain circuits of reading, math, and attention, as well as allowing sampling of large populations of schoolchildren that covers the true range of neurodiversity in them.~Putting Neuroscience in the Classroom: How the Brain Changes as we Learn