P.I.N.S Reflection
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Improving Student Achievement by Improving Teacher Practice

Rationale:

Brockbank's staff has varied levels of proficiency integrating instruction to improve literacy. Not only is there a spectrum of expertise, but also diversity in needs. Even though we want everyone to work on the same areas for improvement, it does not make sense to have a project that is "one-size-fits-all." To affect the quality of teaching at our school most effectively, teachers should evaluate their content and the learning strategies needed by their students and develop individual plans to improve their own teaching practice and take time to reflect and analyze the effectiveness of their actions.

Project Overview:

Teachers will create a professional portfolio that will contain evidence of professional growth to improve student achievement in literacy by implementing teaching strategies learned from L.I.F.E. training.

Portfolios should include:

1. Lesson Plans for Embedded Practice of Content Area Reading for each teaching strategy implemented. (Up to 2 for each quarter or a total of 8)
   
2. Evidence of implementation.
   • Examples of things that might be included in your portfolio as evidence
     • Worksheets or scaffolding produced to implement strategy.
     • Examples of student work.
     • Data collected to measure student achievement or progress toward goal.
     • An anecdotal journal of class activities.
3. A record of reflection of the effectiveness of strategy implemented using the P.I.N.S. Strategic Lesson Reflection forms given in LIFE training.