How do you envision your teaching changing over the next five years?
In the next couple of years, my goal is to eventually teach all Biology courses and really specialize and hone my strategies for that course. In this coming year, I am going to be teaching a section of all English Language Learners (ELLs) for Biology and I am hoping to focus on developing strategies I can use not only with that class but with my other courses also.
This year was the first year I used interactive notebooks and I am hoping to perfect those in the coming years. I think it provides so many opportunities for students to interact with the material and really evaluate and think about their learning.
I am in a constant battle to become more organized, so hopefully over the next five years I can find organizational ideas that help me keep all of my student supplies and teacher supplies organized.
In terms of teaching, I hope that over the next five years (and further than that) I can come up with ways to keep students engaged with the material. There are portions of every unit that I find are hard for students to stay focused. I also want to continue to add variety in my classroom, where every day isn't the same. Over the next five years, I want to really work on integrating technology into each unit as well as engaging labs, group work, vocabulary work, and writing.
This is a huge task, but over the next five years hopefully I'm able to take some baby steps to creating units that use a variety of strategies and create meaningful experiences for students. I feel like right now a few units are great and a few units are not.
As an educator, I hope to take on more of a leadership role for our Biology instructional team. It's an area I'm very passionate about and I would love to facilitate meaningful collaboration with my other colleagues because I feel like that would really improve my teaching in the classroom.
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