DPDP Discussion

This week at PLC we discussed our DPDP's, what we want this year's PLC to accomplish, and we reflected on the day. Joyce was unable to make it to due to illness.

At the beginning of the meeting, we each shared our DPDP's and how we are planning to accomplish them.
 - Kaila stated that she is working on encouraging the students to find real world applications to the things they are learning. For example, she will try to ask the students at the end of the day what they learned. She wants to use effective strategies to instruct her students properly since her group of students is very energetic and talkative this year. She is hoping that the book we read will give her effective strategies for improving her practice of teaching.
- Bekah shared that she wants to focus on monitoring the students better, motivating the students to take ownership of their own learning, and reflecting on a regular basis on one negative and one positive take away from the day. She wants to focus on assessing the students regularly through different methods and have successful follow through with the students in their learning.
- Angela shared that she is focusing on assessment this year. Since JK is doing grading differently this year, she thought she would spend more time and effort on how to assess the students in different ways academically. She is going to try to write down anecdotal notes more often.

We also shared our positives and negatives from the day. This helped us process the day and and reflect on what we can do better and what is effective for our students.

In the end, we all agreed that through this PLC, we want learn how to "work smarter" not "work harder". We all have many things we need to get done; however, we all desire to improve in our practice through implementation of more effective strategies. We look forward to reading the book about how young learners learn in order to improve as professionals.