Purposeful classroom environment
When was the last time you really spruced up the environment of your classroom? When did you last update the "things" on your wall?
Many teachers have gotten better at displaying student work on walls, creating word walls, and making student centered/created anchor charts. But does everything on your walls have a purpose in your current unit? Or do you just leave everything up and not really change it?
When putting things up, make sure they have a current purpose in your classroom. Change things that are on the wall regularly. Have the walls work for you and your students. Make reference during lessons to what is displayed on the walls.
Collecting Artifacts
Have you started collecting artifacts for your end of the year evaluation? Collecting artifacts doesn't have to take a ton of time if you spend a little time each week working on one. Schedule fifteen minutes each week to pick an artifact, assign it to components, and write the reflection.
Always remember it is quality over quantity. For example, a project thoroughly laid out, showing differentiation for students, and project objectives, could hit every component in domain 1: planning and preparation. You need to collect artifacts for domains one and four. You only have to collect artifacts for domains two and three if you feel it is necessary.
Collecting artifacts is a large part of your evaluation. Even if you are not on summary year, you must be collecting artifacts. During your summary year, your evaluator will look through your body of work, over the full three year period, to determine your "score" for each component.
How you collect artifacts is up to you. Just be sure everything is able to be viewed by your evaluator.
If you want help with collecting artifacts, feel free to contact me or your administrator.
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