Fine Tuning Reflection (Mid Year)

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As you proceed through this course, reflect on your practice and teacher decisions.

Fine Tuning Moment: Part 1

What strategies did you use to set your students up for success at the start of the school year?

    • Norms:
    • Agreements:
    • Procedures & routines:

How will you revisit this with your students?

    • Norms:
    • Agreements:
    • Procedures & Routines:

How do I sustain this throughout the school year?

    • Norms:
    • Agreements:
    • Procedures & routines:

Part 1 Closure

  • As you reflect on your practice, what is one area you commit to strengthening and why?
  • Regardless of where you are in the school year, we challenge you to set a reminder 1-2 months from now, as a check in point for your commitment.

Fine Tuning Moment: Part 2

What strategies did you use to set your students up for success at the start of the school year?

    • Teacher-student relationships:
    • Teacher-family relationships:
    • Building trust and credibility:

How will you revisit this with your students?

    • Teacher-student relationships:
    • Teacher-family relationships:
    • Building trust and credibility:

How do I sustain this throughout the school year?

    • Teacher-student relationships:
    • Teacher-family relationships:
    • Building trust and credibility:

Part 2 Closure

  • What are two actions you can commit to at the onset for building and sustaining relationships in your learning environment?

Fine Tuning Moment: Part 3

What strategies did you use to set your students up for success at the start of the school year?

    • Building class community:
    • Peer-to-peer relationships:

How will you revisit this with your students?

    • Building class community:
    • Peer-to-peer relationships:

How do I sustain this throughout the school year?

    • Building class community:
    • Peer-to-peer relationships:

Part 3 Closure

  • What strategies will you use to build and sustain positive peer-to-peer relationships in your classroom? 
  • What will you bring out with your hybrid/remote students more explicitly?

“When we become more concerned about what we teach than who we teach, we have lost the purpose of the work.”  — Thomas C Murray