Your class plan of attack

The administration has asked that we specific your individual learning goals.

How will what we do impact the teaching and learning that takes place in the classrooms?
How will it target achievement?

I think using the SMART goal format would be well received. http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/smart-goals.html

I know we can be specific.

Making is measureable is a bit more of a challenge. Having something to measure in our relatively short amount of time is tough. But perhaps data collection can be built into your project. Let's talk about it.

The goal needs to be attainable. Small gains are real gains. Often small gains are realistic. Keep the plan realistic. We aren't asking for 100% proficiency. That kind of work will take at least until 2014. ;)

The plan needs to be reasonable. You need to be able to pull it off and the students need to have requisite skill set to achieve it as well.

Time bound….specify start and end of the process. When will we look at our numbers, check for growth at the of the process and ideally those results wrap us around to future teaching.

I've attached this template to help us think thru our plans. Ideally I would have an electronic copy of this template before you leave today.