Cycle 3 Goals for Kristen Tibbetts

School Year 2013-2014

Goal Setting
My goals are to:
1) Reflect continuously on my teaching practices to create personalized student
instruction.
2) Immerse in professional growth opportunities for iPad integration and
inquiry learning.
3) Mentor and collaborate with colleagues to share and extend this learning.

Action Plan
I plan to work towards achieving the goals by:
1) Participating in professional workshops, conferences and campus
committees.
2) Planning continuously with TRT, AT, and my grade level--with a special
focus on the new teachers.
3) Designing an interactive professional website that helps me to reflect on my
work as a teacher, graduate student and instructional facilitator.



Reflection of my Professional Growth and Development

Looking back at this school year, I am pleased with my progress in
professional growth and development. Some actions during 2013-2014 that
furthered this development were:
Mentoring Amy and Ali--especially in the areas of differentiated curriculum
and parent communication.
Transitioning to a 1-to-1 iPad environment.
Encouraging my grade level to personalize students' word-work curriculum
with Words Their Way (instead of continuing with second grade spelling
workbooks). This included:
o Teaching my team how to 1) assess and diagnose the students' needs,
and 2) to implement each group's word-work lessons strategically and
mindfully;
o Designing and preparing all the materials for the grade level (2013-14
& 2014-15);
o Collaborating with Liz on word sorting activities for the iPad, which
drastically reduced the amount of paper copies;
o Leading reflective conversations with the grade level in how to
improve and change the instructional design for the next year.
Attending and implementing ideas from professional workshops:
o Math Workshop with Cathy Fosnot (Punahou, August 2013)
o 'The Daily 5' (Honolulu, October 2013)
o Learning and the Brain (Boston, November 2013)
o The iPad Summit (Boston, November 2013)
o Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck (Punahou, June 2014)
o The Brain Symposium with Mike Walker (Punahou, June 2014)
Designing multiple iterations of thematic, inquiry-based curriculum for my
classroom that incorporates students' interests and iPad integration.
Developing a professional website that incorporates:
o Examples of student work providing a digital archive of ideas
o Slideshows of student engagement
o Professional documents to include my resume, cycle
goals/evaluations/reflections, letters of recommendation and
verifications of employment
o Research projects and papers from graduate school
o Examples of units, lessons and activities in varying formats
o "My Inspiration for Teaching" Reflection
o Movie files of students reflecting on their inquiry learning
o Examples of formative and summative assessment tools
o Forms of communication with parents, to include monthly calendars,
newsletters and conference preparations
o Special thank-you letters
Becoming more involved in campus-wide activities, to include the
President's Advisory Council, Carnival 2014: Sound Booth Parent Chair,
and Mindset Mentors.
Working with Doug Kiang to change Sound Booth processes: from hand-
written announcements to digital messaging on the iPads (thereby reducing
paper waste in Sound Booth while providing a digital, word-searchable
archive of all communication for that year.)

Despite this progress in Professional Growth and Development, I'd like to
continue working towards Standard VII for a second year. My first goal"Reflect
continuously on my teaching practices for personalized student instruction"is an
on-going career objective that I don't want to ever classify as 'completed' or
'mastered'. I believe that teachers should be on an endless quest of reflection and
instructional modification for every child. With a new group of students each year,
this learning journey should be dynamic and perpetual. However, the strategies by
which I personalize my students' learning can be honed (in a general sense) as I
find what works for their optimal learning. But I want to keep the understanding
that there are no absolutes that can be applied to every child or to every class. It is
to this end that I approach my goals for Cycle Four.
Next year, I will integrate the steps of the Action Plan so that my personal
growth and my collaboration with colleagues are better streamlined. To do this, I
will use my professional website as a constant reflective tool and work more
closely with Joanne and Ali to create a "one classroom, three teachers" model.
In addition, I will implement a large change with my students: eliminate the
Progressfolio binders, and replace them with student-created ePortfolios and
personalized webpages. The arduous [yet critical and powerful] process of
changing my own teaching portfoliofrom a tangible binder with 19 years of
pictures and documents, to an interactive website organizing my journey towards
personalized student learningwill facilitate a more meaningful and productive
transition in the classroom.
I look forward to taking this journey with the children next year! We will
teach each other how to best document growth using a digital format. I am excited
for the change to ePortfolios, because now students won't have only a paper record
of their 2
nd
grade year.they can capture their voices, expressions, verbal thought
processes, personal interests and favorite activities in video and audio formats.
Learning alongside my students as we create these ePortfolios is the greatest
professional growth and development "action plan" I can imagine!