Writing Professional Development-2-B

Anna Sullivan-Writing-Professional Development-Dem. 2-B

Demonstrator 2- participation: Teachers participate in writing specific professional development designed to meet their needs. All teachers participate in professional development focused on 21^st Century Skills.

B- Teachers actively participate in writing professional learning communities and address issues related to instructional practices, data analysis and improving student achievement.

As part of our dept. meeting, we analyze data to address issues related to instructional practices and student achievement.  Below is the data that we gathered as part of our continuous instructional goals to increase student achievement.  

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Social Studies Dept. Meeting  8-20-14

Scrimmage Analysis Results

1.       Areas of success- Students were able to identify the pros and cons of technology from a variety a list of different types of technology.

2.       Areas of weakness- Writing is very elementary as far as convention, organization and development.

3.       Implications-Writing more often, working with the English dept. so that we are teaching the same format for writing, model good writings, track scores to monitor improvement.

·         Class average on the Multiple Choice answers of the Diagnostics Exam of 100 questions was a 36%.  This is of all of the jr.s taking the exam with the exception of those enrolled in the college class.  As far as a plan for the multiple choice responses, we will address the biggest weakness first and work from there. 

·                                                    Unit                                                                           % Incorrect Responses

Colonization	65%
Antebellum America	56 %
Civil War	71 %
Industrialization	58 %
Increasing Influences and Challenges	71 %
1920s	68.64 %
America at War	67.64 %
Post War	62 %

·         Student growth goals completed and saved.