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Wiki for Professional Goal and Objective related to our retreat and reading the book "Why Culture Matters, Teaching Children in Poverty"
The purpose of this wiki is:
 * to allow you to share/collaborate with other staff learning that took place and what new strategies you plan to implement as a result.
 * to allow you to become familiar with how a wiki operates. if you would like to view the video we watched at our august staff meeting on wiki's, the link is below.

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Please post your name and then your goal and objective(s) related to culture/poverty below. Do not list your other goals and objectives. All of your goals and objectives should be turned in by September 20th (November 1st is the deadline if you are a first year teacher). If you turn in a hard copy, give it to Toni Gift or you can send it to Ron Meyer or your evaluator electronically.

To post, the "edit" button is at the top right of this page.

example: Ron Meyer Goal: To have an emphasis on vocabulary acquisition in each of my units. Objectives: * I will identify what academic vocabulary is necessary for learning to the students up front.
 * I will provide students opportunities to display they have acquired the vocabulary successfully before any summative assessment occurs.

Barb Anderson Based on the writings of Tileston and Darling in __Why Culture Counts,__ I will develop and utilize methods of Differentiating Process. Objectives: I will develop the practice of giving students explicit feedback. I will incorporate more cooperative learning activities in my daily lessons. I will continue to praise my students for their efforts and accomplishments

Debbie Holliday Goal: To improve the business vocabulary skills of the marketing students Objective: I will continue to pre-teach the essential vocabulary at the start of each new unit and develop new strategies for vocabulary retention, including activities with our new Smart Board.

Shelly Mann Goal: To increase student achievement by clarifying purpose and relevance of lessons to students' lives Objective 1: Post learning objectives for each lesson Objective 2: Discuss learning objectives with students so that they understand the purpose of each lesson Objective 3: Evaluate learning through frequent, formative evaluations and align summative evaluations to learning objectives and formative evaluations Objective 4: Create projects that are student-centered, meaningful and relevant to students' lives

Katie Emswiler Goal: To foster resilience to allow students to succeed academically and socially. Objective: Establish caring relationships, hold high expectations and provide opportunities for students to get involved. =**Adam Chamberlin - Goals Related to Culture**=
 * work with students (and their families) one-on-one, in small groups and in the classroom
 * provide small psychoeducational groups to address grief, anger, study skills, college access, etc.

Goal: I want to improve students' understanding of content and overall cultural literacy with an emphasis on vocabulary. I plan to accomplish this goal by devoting more time at the start of each unit solely to vocabulary necessary for the unit. I will then model and encourage use of proper vocabulary from the students as the class progresses through the unit.


 * Kristin Martin**
 * Goal:** To use formative assessment strategies in the classroom to check for understanding of learning (Chapter 8).
 * Objective:** I will employ a variety of formative assessment strategies in the classroom. I will use these to evaluate student learning as it is occurring and to adjust instruction as needed.

** Frank F. Sismanturk **
 * Social Studies**

FHHS

Professional Goals, 2010-2011

**1.** **Student Achievement**: This school year, I will implement cooperative learning activities or reciprocal teaching as a way of helping students act as resources for each other. (Reference Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling’s book //__Why Culture Counts.__//__)__ To this end, I will start utilizing cooperative learning activities or reciprocal teaching practices that the authors recommend. I will use the following guidelines. **a.)** Clarify the parameters of the assignment.   **b.)** Define potential pitfalls. Show students how to avoid these. **c.)** Establish and communicate how the work will be evaluated and by what standards.   **d.)** Identify and make available the resources students will need to complete the work effectively. In order to measure students’ learning, these practices will occur during the third six- weeks grading period. Since each student learns differently and has different skills, this new approach should enable me to effectively measure each student’s learning. At the end of the third six-weeks grading period, I will compare students’ grades with the first six-weeks and second six-weeks grading periods in order to evaluate the validity of this new approach. ** Carol Coudle ** ** Goal related to culture: ** ** To share information and positive messages with FHHS students and families in a way that honors diversity and that will reach the diversity that makes up Franklin Heights. ** ** Objectives ** ** * Provide information in a variety of ways including the web site, newsletters, and PTA ** ** *Create bulletin boards and other means of sharing messages with students that is sensitive and representative of the many cultures we have in the building. ** Clarissa Furlong

I am completing PD on Project based learning and implementing 2 projects this year. I am having the students work collaboratively on small in class projects in order to prepare for the bigger projects. I am incorporating 21st century skills into the project to better prepare my students for the work place that they will be entering.

In addition, my students have written down big, yearly goals and have broken them down into 6 week goals. Every Monday we are looking at these and our bell ringer is to assess how we are doing, individually and as a class.


 * Kari Craddock**

My culture __goal__ for this year is to be more open-minded to what students are dealing with at home, while still presenting them with an effective learning environment. In the past two years I have looked at students as either going to work for me or not going to work for me, period. However, after reading Why Culture Counts I realize that I am doing an injustice to my students who may not be in the best situations at home. Instead of eventually giving up on these individuals turning in work I need to work with these students even more to help them realize that although their present situation may not be ideal, they are not committed to the same destiny. By acknowledging that the students are involved in less than perfect circumstances, but also offering them a possibility of overcoming it I think the students will be more likely to succeed in my class. __Objective__: To continue to stay in contact with students and parents of students who struggle consistently in my class.

Paul Sarver Goal: Identify and utilize community resources that can be assets in creating culturally responsive communication with students and their parents. Objective: Contact community agencies, programs, and schools to explore how I can use their expertise in helping our students plan and believe in goals of finishing secondary and post-secondary education.

Sveti Matejic

I will use scaffolding to help students develop the learning and organizational skills (writing in particular) to work at higher level classes. I will use clear rubrics to maintain clear expectations and help students develop the confidence in their learning abilities necessary to succeed after high school and in college.

Tom Lennon

I will expand my emphasis on vocabulary to assit student comprehension of unit material. I will include vacabulary as part of my lesson assessments.

Brian K. Sanders

I will provide a culturally responsive classroom utilizing instructional strategies such as cooperative learning, group investigation, graphic representations, and affirmations.

Gina Shay According to the book, many cultures work collaboratively instead of independently. While I will not give up individual work and responsibility, I have created a new activity. Replacing AR (an individual assignment) is Reading Circles. This is one of the strategies recommended for allowing opportunities for collaboration and cooperative learning. Hopefully, this will make better and more enthusiastic readers. Katie Binkley-Math

Goal: To provide students with real-life math problems that are relevant to their experiences and increase their problem-solving skills. The book states that "when the students have the opportuntity to learn and apply effective problem-solving skills, they can increase achievement on learning by as much as 21 percentile points." Therefore, I will plan problems that are related to their school day and activities after school. I will have them generate and test hypotheses about content knowledge and have the create their own problems. Also provide examples and nonexamples.

Julie Becker

Goal: To increase student achievement by using a variety of instructional strategies for a culturally responsive classroom.

Objective: I will use a variety of teaching practices known to encourage culturally diverse students. Some of these practices may include: cooperative learning, graphic presentations, wait time, affirmations, group investigation, call and response strategy, visual imagery, and the KIVA process.

Susan Ruffley

Goal: To continue to read and study ways to relate to students of poverty in order to provide them with choices in behavior, academic success and career choices.

Objective: A) The teacher will encourage a classroom environment that promotes students helping students; students explaining instructions to students; students reteaching students. B) The teacher will experiment with opportunities for students to discuss and share learning and ideas with each other.

Nicole Walden Goal: To help students focus not on who they are that makes them different, but how they are just like everyone else and to use that understanding to realize that the goals we are setting as a class exclude noone. Despite their current circumstances, it is still important to move forward, and we are all doing that together. This includes my own mindset as a teacher in believeing that despite how they came to me it is still my job to move them forward. No one is a hopeless case...just like Christ had hope for me when I looked hopeless.

Jennifer Javorsky ﻿Goal: to provide students with explicit feedback related to their work experiences. Objectives:
 * 1) to provide students with work evaluations that are:
 * descriptive -- detailing work expectations
 * informative -- including what the student needs to reflect upon
 * specific -- informing students of exactly what was great, what was okay and what needs improvement.
 * guiding -- telling the student exactly what improvements need to be made and what behaviors need to continue
 * 1) to conference individually with students to discuss feedback/evaluations
 * meet with community job experience students on a daily basis upon returning from work
 * meet with in school job students on a weekly basis
 * meet with Occupation Education students on a weekly basis

Jennifer Fryman **Goal:** I want to emphasize on students’ understanding of vocabulary on chapter materials.

**Objective:** I will have students work with vocabulary terms weekly and assess appropriately. I will model the vocabulary terms in class to help familiarize the students with the correct meanings of these words and how to use them correctly. Larry Hill Goal: My goal will be to ensure students understand what is being taught by using assements that require them to demonstrate what they have learned through observation.

Objective: Use discussion, role playing, and drawing to determine the individual needs of students while considering how different culture and poverty can assist with learning needs.

Kristi Chambliss I will incorporate more rigor into my classroom. I will use the rigor "chart" from the book and Dr. Miranda and create assignments and projects that will challenge my students in the higher order thinking skills.

Kim Pfeiffer

To enhance student achievement by increasing relevancy for all students. Objective: Include foods from other cultures (focused more on Latin America and Africa/Somali) in posters, class activities, and labs. Objective: Preteach vocabulary needed for success in each unit.

Rebecca Gladden Goal: To integrate more teaching strategies into daily lessons to accommodate different learning styles and cultures in the classroom. Objective:
 * 1) The teacher will
 * 2) give the students six weeks to obtain an outfit for business casual dress that is once a week. She will meet with students beforehand to help anyone who needs help due to financial issues to obtain an outfit. Due to the economic status of our students, more time is needed to obtain a business casual outfit, although still needed to begin building their business wardrobe for when they enter the workforce.
 * 3) use the Smart Board to create hands-on learning.
 * 4) try new strategies she learns through her course she is completing at Ashland University to help reach all students’ learning styles in her classroom.
 * 5) Use vocabulary chunking of teaching 7 words or less (p 51) and use Graphic Representation (p 126) which was discussed in the text.

Jill Schoener PROFESSIONAL GOAL: PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:
 * To implement instructional strategies for culturally responsive classrooms discussed in text //__Why Culture Counts__// pages 60-66.
 * The teacher will implement teaching strategies including cooperative learning, group investigation, graphic representations, affirmations and visual imagery to encourage curlturally diverse students and increase student achievement.

Elaine Weaver Goal: **Use clear learning objectives daily:** This year I will improve my classroom instruction by presenting clear learning objectives in student-friendly language at the beginning of class every day. These objectives will be easy to read, presented in a word document on the LCD projector when the students come in. Students are expected to write down goals for the day in a chart I provide. At the end of the week, they receive credit for writing down the goals. There is a space on the bottom of the chart where they can fill in what goals they still need to work on. This encourages self-assessment, which greatly improves the educational outcomes of lower income students (Why Culture Counts, pg. 52). Don Worstell  Goal: Help students increase their individual level of fitness. Students will implement a fitness plan that is geared toward their fitness goals and has relevance in their lives. Objective: To increase student vocabulary with regard to the human body (with an emphasis on large muscle groups). To monitor caloric intake and the impact that label literacy with regard to the food we eat can impact the shape and function of the human body.

Whitney Turchan, Physical Science Goal:This year I will differentiate my instruction in order to meet the needs of all students from diverse cultural groups. Objectives:
 * I will continue to research the cultures and communities of my students by attending extra curricular events and by engaging in non academic conversation with them.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I learn more, I will integrate my knowledge of their interests, cultures, and traditions into my lessons to make student learning culturally relevant.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will increase the amount of collaborative learning that occurs in my classroom, since I know many of my students come from cultural groups that "hold a collectivist view of learning [different] than the Euro-American value system that is prevalent in schools today" (Tileston & Darling, 2008, p. 39).

Nell Haton-Micich **__ Culture __** My first teaching goal will relate to the book study from, Why Culture Counts. I would like to continue working collaboratively with my co-teachers to provide all students with experiences and opportunities for processing information so that they can make their own meaning out of the content. The way in which I will reach this goal is through understanding the learning process, recognize the various stages of human development, consider how children of poverty process information, incorporate teaching methods that are most effective, and include strategies that engage students in their learning to make meaning for themselves.

Ed Roberts


 * Goal : To increase student achievement by increasing student self efficacy as learners by implementing some of the strategies described by Tileston and Darling in the book __Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty.__**

Objective #1: I will create different activities for the TI-Nspire Navigator system that will allow students to have choices in how they meet different learning targets based on their different abilities and intelligences. As a result of these activities, all students will experience success in meeting the learning targets with immediate feedback so that student achievement will improve.

Andy Amstutz

Culture goal and objective:

**Goal:** Increase the resiliency of my students, thus increasing their achievement.

**Objective:** I plan on giving students multiple ways of collaborating, interacting, learning and achieving content related goals (Tileston, D & Darling, S, 2008). By giving them different ways to show their learning, I can keep high expectations for all students.


 * Seth Ellsworth:**

Laura Garber: My goal is to differentiate assessments for students, allowing them choices based on their strengths.
 * I will use more realia (pictures, samples from stores, internet websites, etc.) during instruction in order to create relevant background and context for my students.
 * I will use Marzano’s six step process for teaching vocabulary to frontload content area vocabulary provided by SIOP shelter and other classroom teachers.
 * I will provide examples of quality work for students prior to assignments so they are clear about expectations. These will include modeling, rubrics, checklists, etc.

Tom Falk Goal: To increase student engagement for the "at risk population". Objective: I will implement instructional strategies for culturally responsive classrooms, Chapter 5-__Why Culture Counts__.

DH Goal: To differentiate instruction and assessment, as I find multiple strategies that meet the needs of my culturally diverse classroom.

Tom Mann

**Goal**: I will make more of an effort to encourage collaboration instead of individualism. As was stated in //Why Culture Counts//, “students from minority cultures grow up with different values from their teachers with respect to helping each other and working together…” pg 33. **Objective**: I will use literature circles where students choose their own reading material and take on certain roles in their group. These roles include: Discussion Leader, Character Captain, Connector, Artistic Adventurer, Literary Luminary, and Vocabulary Leader. Students will use self and group evaluation.

Susan Lundy Science Goal linked to cultural book: I plan to improve student use and comprehension of vocabulary in science. I plan to accomplish this goal by devoting more time lto prefixes, suffixes and root words that are associated with science. I will track with a pretest and then follow up with a retest. We will also focus on groups of prefix/suffix and roots each 6 weeks to help prepare for retest.

Sally Weber Goal: to increase student achievement by making the content relevant to my student's lives Objective: write the ojbective for the day on the 6 week syllabus and also on the chalkboard before each class. Discuss the objective before beginning the lesson.

Rob Adams
 * Goal:** In Chapter 8, the book discusses using more formative assessment to more accurately guage where students are in each unit. This is something that I have worked on in professional development courses and feel like it can for sure be implemented.
 * Objective:** I will have students participate in a lot of project based learning and implement various techniques that i learned at the 2 day formative assessment seminar last winter. Have students peer edit and review each other's work.

Ken Robinson Goal: Since I teach 6 math classes a day, I decided that my goal will be to have students participate in more real world/life applicable math problems. This is a goal that I will work on with Katie Binkly, Andy Amstutz, and Kari Craddock. Objective: I will work with my cooperating teachers to come up with real world math problems that require students to relate the new material to their personal lives. By doing this, students will better be able to relate the new material to something they encounter in their every day lives. This will be done using the navigator system when available, and give feedback on how the material is relatable to their lives.

Shawn Wolfe **Goal:** Implement strategies from the assigned book to better understand children of poverty and help those students at Franklin Heights increase their academic achievement. **Objectives:** A. Implement pre-reading and pre-writing word webs as well as other visual organizational tools in the classroom. B. Use concrete examples first to help students better understand concepts before moving on to more complex and abstract ideas. C. Create an atmosphere of caring, understanding and support for students by getting to know them better. Ask them about their lives outside of class and how they are doing on a daily basis. Lindsey Richardson  Goal: Present content in a way that is relevant to students' lives in order to increase student achievement. Objectives: Create more real world activites and problems to help my students relate the content to their lives. Write the daily objective on the board each day, so the students know what they are expected to learn and how they will be able to use the content in their lives. Erin Woody  Physical Education   Goal: Implement Blooms Taxonomy from the book, to guide students from the simple to the complex aspects and understanding of physical fitness, strength training, and welness. Objective: I will have students learn the various definitions and aspects of physical fitness and strength trainig through introducing vocabulary words weekly, teaching various sports, and weight training whil gradually increaseing the level of vocabulary and increasing the intensity of their workouts. Kaitlin Hawkey:  Goal: To relate what the students are learning to real life situations that they likely would have been in or likely will be in. I hope to answer all of their questions "When am I ever going to use this?" Objectives: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Scott Hoy <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Goal: To reduce a Euro-American bias in my instruction, I will offer illustrations and other materials depicting the lives and achievements of minorities. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Objectives: 1. I will use supplemental resources depicting the achievements and lives of minorities in each textbook chapter on at least 2 occasions <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. I will emphasize the lives and achievements of minorities from the textbook when appropriate during my lessons. Ben Barlow ** Objectives: ** **a)** **Present learning tasks in student friendly language that will show the student why they will want to learn the material, why the material should be important to them and how they can be successful in learning the given task.**   **b)** **Provide explicit feedback on the students’ approach to the goal which will be descriptive, informative, specific and guiding in order to let students know what was good about their work, why it was good, what was bad and how it can be improved.**
 * For every unit, I will discuss a variety of different situations that the students will use the material (story problems).
 * I will come up with careers that relate to the students' interests and discuss with them how the material is used.
 * I will have the students complete a project where they will interview an adult that they know and discuss a time in their career when they use Algebra.
 * 1) ** I will utilize instructional strategies that improve student motivation by focusing on the Self System of Marzano’s theory. According to why culture counts, “The Self System is the control center for thinking and action.” Therefore, I will: **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bill Kruczynski <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">I will create a culturally responsive classroom by providing a learning environment that is inviting; communicate inviting messages to the students; maintain classroom control in a firm but warm manner;the students will have the belief they can accomplish was is asked of them; we will work on making a collective learning community rather than an individual learning environment. To have an emphasis on vocabulary.

Jennifer Staten Goal: This year I will focus on creating lessons that build off of my students’ life experiences instead of my own. Objective: I will give students choices when possible, as well as allow for collaborative learning. ** Sarah Waugh ** Goal: This is the first year I have students whose primary/home language is not English. I am planning to have all correspondence that I send home translated into Spanish and Somali in order to keep those families in the loop and informed. **ANNA KAASE** Objectives:
 * 1) ** Why Culture Counts: **
 * CULTURE GOAL:**To activate student’s prior knowledge and connect their life experiences and interests, to help students recall and store information connected to the learning goal.
 * At the beginning of each unit use a KNLH chart. Students will write what they already know, what they need to learn, what they learned, and how they learned it on the KNLH chart.
 * I will use graphic organizers, concept maps, and outlines before, during and at the end of each unit.
 * Students will keep a reflective journal where they will write about topics that I choose and this will serve as a bell ringer for that day.
 * I will review what we talked about the previous day in order to help students recall and store information.

Jessica Housos

Goal: To successfully reach students of different backgrounds or cultures. It is difficult to personally relate to my students who come from other cultures, therefore it is challenging to connect with them in the classroom. I want to better understand their background so that I can teach them in the best way possible.

Objective: I will explicitly state our learning goal each day to help the students focus on the task at hand. I will connect prior knowledge with new learning at the beginning of class, and I will encourage students to collaborate with each other during certain activities.

Steve McQuade

Goal: Relate mathematical concepts to students’ lives, norms, and cultural values. Relating material to students’ lives will help them retain information.

Objective: I will present information that students can relate to by tailoring the information to students everyday lives. I will also present information in student friendly language so they feel that I am talking with them instead of talking at them. Finally, I will make class more interesting by presenting problems that will be interesting to students. If they feel they are part of the class they will be more engaged.

Shayla Brown

Goal: To increase student understanding of themselves and the world around them. Relating material to their lives by using relevance in the classroom.

Objective: I will relate information from class to their daily lives. I will provide formative assessments in the class to evaluate student understanding. Depending on the level of understanding this will be used to guide my instruction to the next topic. By relating information to the students it will make it more relevant and will increase the likelihood that they will retain the information.