August Growth Mindset

What are your goals for improving your Curricular Design Unit?  What has energized you?  What has challenged you?

My goals are to just get it done and implemented. For at least two of the classes I'm going to use it, it'll be completely new and from scratch, so to speak, so first getting it ready and then implementing it, all in the span of one trimester is going to be a bit time-consuming. However, it's a great chance to make the curriculum what I want it to be, and in my (and my colleagues with which I'm working on it) image. The work can be meaningful, modern, updated, engaging, and grandiose! So, that's the challenge. 

Write 1-3 questions about your Action Research that have emerged as you consider your question and your implementation plan.

1. Is it ok to not only measure the data within a specific class (Pre-AP 10), but also that of other classes side-by-side with it (English 10A, Composition 12)? 

2. Will these things be enough to measure in a satisfactory manner:

a. a rough draft that gets a "grade" from me (without the students knowing what it is)

b. the final grade of that essay's final draft

c. survey results of what students thought they'd get on the essay before they start the assignment

d. survey results about the students' perceptions of the writing feedback and whether it helped them, hurt them, or didn't really effect them at all?

e. example essays with the feedback on them and the names "whited out"

f. The assignment itself, its rubric, teaching materials, etc.?

Write 1-3 questions about your ROL that have emerged as you researched, wrote annotated bibs and started your first draft.

1. If all the research is saying the same thing, what is holding up the implementation of ideas into the public school system at large?

2. Will this new method of grading writing actually benefit the students as much as the research says it will, in practice?

3. Will it save me time or cost it?