Teacher professional growth plan 2013-14
Reflection: Reflect on last year, including professional development
- DH role
- I started in January 2013, as an interim DH & I am now the full time Department Head with our French Curriculum Leader
- I had a very big learning curve
- Thankfully, we have an amazing French program’s Curriculum Leader
- I updated and streamlined:
- Created a Language Department site
- Sharing of assessment rubrics and ideas
- Backward design concept / reports
- e-portfolios
- I designed a “Collective Doc”
- “No luck – Collective Doc!”
- We have our meeting agendas there
- We have a table of content of our Shared Docx
- Links to meetings / summaries
- The conference budget (everyone has already gone to at least one conference this year)
- Planned and organized 3 successful retreats
- The 3 languages budgets (on Google docx)
- I successfully involved all the language teachers in the CAIS process and used the opportunity to create a collaborative approach to challenges
- I organized all our meetings / meetings summaries on an online spreadsheet with a clear structure for easier access and referencing
- Updated our Language Department’s handbook (IP)
- Revised our Department Vision (IP)
- Updated and organize all inventories
- I created a shared folder for the department:
- ideas for technological processes
- monitoring activities for each department
- sharing course outlines, descriptions, report comments, etc.
- communication our final assessments plans
- Created a Language Department site
- The French Curriculum Leader and I updated and streamlined:
- The French budget
- Created an online scope and sequence (with the collaboration of the teachers)
- Organized and communicated the course load distribution (who teaches what; how many preparations, etc.)
- Did the French program inventory
- The French Curriculum Leader:
- Was in charge of the placement of students for the French program (a big responsibility)
- Created a Google calendar for the department
- Last year was very successful: Film
- Fabulous CHS Student Film Festival – great films – great speakers – good use of the new auditorium sound system
- Continued excellent with the integration of instructional films for biology, chemistry, languages, debating, world history and our first attempt at an online resume
- Students won $1000 for a UBC physics contest video
- Outstanding movies reflecting on various social issues, personal values and artistic endeavors
- Personally, I have learned how to better use the new cameras; successfully utilized the student created instructional film about the use of our equipment (Survival guide to film production) as a teaching tool; integrated the camera operation quiz that I designed in Moodle; navigated through the updates and changes of our editing software FCP-X; used the sound studio with students more than ever, created clay animation with the Video Club and finally mastered how to optimize green screen application
- Last year was very successful: Spanish
- The Spanish class created a very impressive final project after studying historical films
- Highly personalized program, with themes and approaches designed specifically for the students; pacing also individualized
- One student has confirmed that she is becoming a Spanish teacher (at UBC)
Goals (continuous): (Remember to include IT)
- To empower students with the use of the HD cameras
- Measurement: the result – film / public, students and teacher feedback
- To empower students with the use of the latest FCP-X
- Measurement: the result – film / public, students and teacher feedback
- To facilitate the creation of award winning productions as well as co-curricular opportunities in my film classes
- The outcome: which programs cooperated? How did we combine assessment? Student feedback / teachers’ feedback
- Continue producing instructional films
- To optimize / continue my curriculum maps
- To continue finding ways to optimize the 1:1 computer implementation
- To organize, again this year, a fabulous Spanish day
Plan: Actions
- To facilitate the implementation of the goals in the film program:
- I have changed the course descriptions to include more professional skills development
- The film program works directly with the Communication Department this year. We collaborate to create:
- organizing & filming / editing & distributing music concerts
- organizing & filming / editing & distributing the play
- organizing & filming / editing & distributing the play
- organizing & filming / editing & distributing… many more official school events
- I started using the flipped classrooms concept in my film classes (student video: Survival guide to film production)
- Continue offering a workshop for student services / grade 9 / media literacy (+ national week)
- Continue mentoring the Spanish teacher closely (grade 9-10-11)
- Facilitating fun films for assemblies…
- Spanish
- I started using the flipped classrooms concept in my Spanish 12/AP program (online tutor)
- Re-designed the AP course to satisfy the new AP curriculum – the course was approved
- Implement the AP program that I have re-designed (for the new AP exam)
- Continue to personalize the program, with themes and approaches designed specifically for the students; pacing also individualized
- Continue to differentiate learning: Sp 12 and Sp12AP
- French
- For the first time, I am using an online book
- Revised and implement the Pre-AP program I designed (online magazines, etc.)
- Engage the students culturally with the use of songs, poems, debates, etc.
- Use E-portfolios to archive their artifacts
Timeline: Resources
- We need:
- Pending:
- Animation studio: New software must be purchased and animation booth renovated to accommodate the cameras
- We need:
- Decent headphones for the cameras;
- speakers;
- small camera for animation;
- 2 tripod;
- boom poles;
- reflectors: aluminum screens
- We need additional memory cards and tripods (IP) to support the production of films outside the program
- Pending:
- We continue to use:
- Student film festivals and competitions
- E-portfolios: (CHS template): https://sites.google.com/site/digitalfilmeportfolio/home
- Recording studio: Garage Band
- Etc.
- Languages:
- Lab
- We are investigating the idea of a virtual or partly virtual language lab at this time
- Plan: New language lab software and hardware (if necessary) in Sept. 2014
- Activities: Video Club
- Work with the Communication Department to film events + VC members – successful!