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Assignment: Enhancing the Integration of Primary Documents Essay
Choose an academic need at your school for an area in which you are involved, and for which you can envision working with colleagues toward improvement.
Some examples:
If you are a second-grade teacher and your grade level is seeking to improve reading scores, you might work with other second-grade teachers to determine what would be the best focus for an improvement initiative.
If you teach high school Social Studies, and your School Improvement Plan identified making greater use of primary documents in lessons, you might work with other Social Studies teachers toward that improvement.
If you teach Band, you may envision working with other music teachers in the system or area.
You are not going to implement this assignment, but you can envision this work as a teacher leader.
Suppose that your administrator has asked you to facilitate this work by planning a needs assessment so that you can help colleagues to determine a plan for this academic improvement. Starting on page 2 of your Assignment 8 paper, address each of the following prompts, labeling them as you go. Prompts b-e are closely parallel to some of the needs assessment steps on text p. 105.
1. Briefly identify your teaching assignment and describe the broad academic improvement that will be the focus of the work. Use the examples above as a pattern.
2. What existing data might you and colleagues gather for review related to the need? Be specific.
3. After reviewing the data, devise five questions you might use on a survey to determine your colleagues' needs related to addressing the improvement.
4. Describe a potential method for administering the questions.
5. Describe how you (or you and your colleagues) will compile and analyze the results and how you might present the results (chart? narrative? other?).
6. Reflect on what step above might be the most difficult and identify some specific adult learning strategies you can use to plan for success.