Bondurant-Farrar Community Schools Artifact

Artifact Title: PCL Math Planning

Portfolio Author: Dohmen

Date: December 2015

Iowa Teaching Standard #7 Engages in professional growth.

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Demonstrates habits and skills of continuous inquiry and learning.

Works collaboratively to improve professional practice and student learning.
Applies research, knowledge, and skills from professional development opportunities to improve practice.
Establishes and implements professional development plans based upon the teachers needs aligned to the
Iowa Teaching Standards and district/building student achievement goals.
e. Provides an analysis of student learning and growth based on teacher created test and authentic measures as
well as any standardized and district-wide tests.

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Description of artifact and how the artifact meets the standard:
As a teacher it is so important to engage in professional growth throughout the school year. My 3 rd grade team and I
work together to apply research, knowledge, and skills from professional development to improve our teaching practice.
We complete our PLC Math Planning Log for each chapter of our math curriculum of GoMath!. We each collaborate on
the chapters, teach our ability group, and then reflect on what went well and what we need to improve for the following
year.
Reflection on artifact (what went right, what went wrong, how to make better)
This PLC Math Planning Log is a great tool for our team to use to make sure we are applying appropriate and current
teaching strategies. We work together to plan the scope and sequence of each chapter to help us stay on track for report
cards and the school year. At the end of each chapter we also take the time to reflect on the instruction, extension
activities, and re-teaching material. We are able to see what each teacher had successes on and what struggles we
shared. We are on our second year using our PLC Math Planning Log and it is very helpful for this year. We are using
more enriching materials to make the math strategies, skills, and facts more concrete to the students. I am very excited
to continue to grow as a professional by using our PLC Math Planning Log.