Action+Plan+Darin

// An Action Plan is a plan for making a teaching change that will enhance your students understanding of mathematics. // Name Darin Radke School Okanogan High School Teaching assignment Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Trig/PreCal, AP Calculus Describe your student population (approximate number, ethnicity, language, etc) 300, mostly caucasian, hispanic, and native american with spanish and english as the main languages
 * Action Plan **
 * Describe your teaching situation **

What teaching change (instruction, assessment, materials) you like to improve? Explain how your teaching change will improve your students’ ability to learn mathematics. Also, describe possible ways that technology might assist you in making your teaching change. This year I'll be teaching AP Calculus for the first time. I am also going to be implementing cooperative learning groups into my class for the first time with a concentrated effort on my part to make it work. Technology will help my Calculus teaching with the graphing calculators used to illustrate topics. I'd also like to use Fathom as a tool to teach with as well as a tool to create activities and assessments. Set Teaching Goals ** Identify at least two teaching goals (measurable accomplishment that if met would enable your students to learn mathematics more effectively). I'd like to implement formative assessment and one of the ways I will is to use the mini white boards atleast once per week. Also, I'd like to use blogging as a way for students to journal to me and have them do this once per week as homework.
 * Describe your teaching change **

Describe at least two things you are going to do as a teacher to accomplish your teaching goals. These actions may or may not use technology but if they do not use technology, explain why technology is or is not the best teaching tool for your teaching change. I will need to get a 4 x 8 piece of shower board and cut it up. I think this is better than technology because I can have students easily put their boards up in the front of the room and also hold them up so I can quickly assess their answers. One obstacle to my blogging is that our school I think won't allow students to blog on the school network so they'll have to do it at home and cannot go to the library at lunch or the computer lab if they don't have internet at home. I'll need to talk to the administration to see if we can come up with a solution to this.
 * Describe Teaching Actions**

Identify how you are going to assess each of your teaching goals (simple method of collecting information to see if your teach goals was met). Did I get the whiteboards and use them once per week? Do I have students do work and then I put comments on them a return the work to the students without a grade? Can I convince my principals to allow me to do this blogging and can I get it set up.
 * Assess Teaching Goals **

Outline a general timeline that identifies when you are going to use your actions, collect your assessment data By the end of September, I hope to be using Formative Assessment and with the mini whiteboards. I would like to have the students be blogging by the end of the 1st quarter.
 * Timeline **

Write a reflection on the results of your action plan. What was difficult? What worked well? How did your students react to the changes you made? What was the impact on student learning?
 * Reflection **