Sidd Thomas

Background

About Sidd Thomas

I will improve my ability to engage students in their learning by attending and implementing Rigor and Relevance training, researching and implementing strategies for engaging students in rigorous learning, and refining my use of student involved formative assessment practices. These will be measured through pre and post assessments, student work samples, interim assessments, peer and principal observations and conferences, and self-reflection. I will improve my questioning techniques to engage students in higher level critical thinking and problem solving. I will implement learning from study of Thinking Strategies. Growth will be evidenced through lesson plans, observation, self-reflection, and student work samples. I will increase student use of technology for learning in my classroom. I will collaborate with a district technology cadre to learn ways to integrate learning with technology in instruction. We will also study Kajder’s book Adolescents and Digital Literacies and other resources. Evidence of success includes lesson plans, student work samples, and self-reflection. I will learn to incorporate online writing tools in my writing workshop. After collaborating with the technology resource teacher to investigate Google Docs and other on-line tools, my students will have opportunities to write independently, collaboratively and give/receive feedback using the tools. This will be evidenced by student writing samples, lesson plans, and reflection.