growth

As educators, we are always trying to improve ourselves as well as our professional approach. One needs to reflect on our personal needs and areas of professional growth. Take time to reflect on your math capabilities as well as your math instructional practices.

Identify your areas of strength and weakness concerning math content knowledge and/or math teaching methods.

Research trends, best practices, and available resources to help you grow in these areas toward math content knowledge and/or math teaching methods.

What do I need to think about?

· How might these weaknesses impact student learning?

· What do you plan to do to address these weaknesses?

· What resources are available to help with your growth (professional organizations, online tools, and such)?

Create a professional growth plan to address your areas of focus so that you can improve practice and enhance student learning.

Include the following in your plan:

· Specific areas of strength in teaching math

· Specific areas of weakness in teaching math

· Activities and resources needed to overcome weaknesses and support growth

· Sources of evidence to indicate how you will know if you have achieved your goal

· Describe the value and benefits for self-reflection by teachers.

· Describe the value and benefits of collaboration to teachers.