As I get back into "professional mode" and start thinking about the new school year I realize I need to set some goals for myself. My school has goal setting conferences for all the students and I think that staff should do the same. So, what are my goals for the year?
A personal goal is to try and make sure that I stay calm in more of my interactions. I would love to say all, but that is not possible. I struggle with staff negativity. I struggle with student anumeracy (like aliteracy but for math), apathy, and my inability to get concepts across to students to are trying to learn (that last especially). And I struggle with my family, for many of the reasons that many of us do!
A professional goal is to work on rebuilding my math department. Aside from myself, there are no math teachers returning form the start of last year. I've seen more than 1 new math teacher a year since starting 12 years ago and I would like to stop that! I've got some promising colleagues, so it is a challenge I look forward to. However, as an Expeditionary Learning school our math department is lagging behind our other departments in implementation. Somewhat understandable with the turn-over and the difficulty of building meaningful case studies in mathematics.
I have two academic goals. First, is that I would like to work hard on my National Board Certification. I believe it is a three year process as they are redoing this process. Time is good since it involves A LOT of writing; not a strength of mine. My second is that I would like to post at least 2 blog posts a month, at least one of which will be an article review (I've done a few in the past if you look "down").
If you're a follower of this blog, on twitter (@TheMathProphet), or linked via LinkedIn with me you can hold me accountable. What are your plans? Post below!
As a follow-up I've been doing a pretty good job sticking to these goals. I'm falling behind on the blog posting goal, but I'm nailing the rest. How are your goals going?
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