Assignment Guidelines: Create A Professional Learning Plan

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WEEK TWO - APPLY:
Create a Professional Learning Plan. Include the following criteria in your plan:
Answer the following inquiry questions:
❏ Which specific CSTP element will drive your J-Factor Inquiry focus? List the specific standard element.
The standard I chose to drive this cycle is Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.4 – Using a variety of instructional strategies, resources, and technologies to meet students’ diverse learning needs.
❏ Where am I now? In regards to your chosen CSTP and current level of teacher and student joy, where are you now? Describe your current reality.
As a new teacher it is very important to stick to curriculum and follow it closely to understand the the scope and sequence, …show more content…

In order to increase the J factor I am going to incorporate both drama, song, and dance, and fun and games into my lesson. I will ensure all students success by including sentence frames, progress monitoring, and teacher observations. I am convinced the special population students will benefit the most if engagement is increased.
The Lesson- I will be teaching point of view and perspective. Through this lesson students will be expected to identify the point of view of stories based on clue pronouns. We started this lesson by taking notes on four different point of views and the clue pronouns associated with each point of view. Then we discussed stories we have read and their point of view. Finally we ended the lesson with a writing assignment where each student had a picture and they had to write a story about the picture in first person, second person, and third person limited and omniscient. The following day the first assessment was given. The next week we reviewed the lesson adding the J factor to it. I created a prezi reviewing our notes taken the week before, this included a fun point of view song by flocabulary. Then we played a mingling game. Each student has a card with a passage from well-known novel, poem, or story. Their job was to mingle around the classroom and when the singing stop the first person they saw was their partner. They were expected to read their card to the …show more content…

I will assess the impact of joy on student achievement through an online assessment given after general instruction and then a similar assessment after interactive lesson.
❏ Upload your Professional Learning Plan.
❏ Meet with your reflective coach to discuss your plan BEFORE you implement.
❏ Implement one of the 5 Joy Factors as a change in your practice.
❏ Capture up to 10 minutes of your implementation on video. Your video should demonstrate student learning through the integration of at least one of the 5 Joy Factors and include teacher facilitation and student

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