Em's Ever Evolving Erudition

 Here is a Infographic I designed to help guide new librarians on developing their professional goals.  Based on my reflection from earlier this year, I made sure to include visioning and advocacy as part of the process.  There are many different words used for SMART goals.  I used the ones that I've used with students before and seem to make the most sense to me.   https://create.piktochart.com/output/55311561-steps-to-goal-setting Loading...

 For my practice observation I watched a lesson from a skilled ELA teacher on the Teaching Channel. The lesson was using their social studies textbook to learn about the Lewis & Clark expedition.  The teacher was looking for students to look for evidence within the text to support a main idea.  She did this through a number of activities to gets actively engaged with the material.   To collect evidence of this observation, I used a notebook to collect running notes of what I saw and heard.  This was a little tricky for me as writing the notes required me to not give full focus to what was happening.  Some of the notes are half finished with my hope that I would understand them afterwards.  The benefit of recording the observation is being able to pause and rewind (or watch multiple times) to really observe all the interactions.  I was trying to focus on the teacher and what she was doing so I missed a lot of what the students were doing ...