Recommendation4

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__**Recommendation 4**__ // 4. Complete the curriculum mapping and alignment project and provide ongoing teacher mentoring and professional development (PD) focused on best practices in the classroom to ensure correlation between the written, taught and tested curriculum. This might be accomplished through the appointment of a full time curriculum coach. // 2. The White Boards are not being utilized, there was little goal setting or lesson planning evidence in and around the classrooms and the observer is left to imagine the purpose of the assignment and wonder if the outcome of a posted assignment hit or missed the target or if the teaching and learning that is going on is appropriate and purposeful. 3. Teaching methodologies reflect a content driven approach to education rather than standardized skill development for students. 4. Instructors are lacking in the skills needed to challenge students to reach their potential, motivate them in the classroom and achieve results reflective of the school’s stated intentions. 5. Professional development in the areas of standards based instruction, model classrooms, skill development, lesson planning and the use of data to drive purposeful teaching are desperately needed. 6. A full time curriculum coach might help accomplish these tasks.” || Improvements since Fall of 2009:
 * What the QAR says…. || Evidence of Improvement since Fall of 2009 || Action Plan || Method to Monitor Progress on Action Plan  ||
 * 1. Classroom visits and self-study materials indicate that methodologies reflect traditional, teacher led lecture and discussions as opposed to interactive, student engagement in the teaching and learning process. In elementary level classrooms, standards, rubrics and assignment descriptions are absent.

??????? || Bring an outside consultant to evaluate teaching practices at AISK.

Full-time curriculum person?

Principal evaluations of teachers need to be aligned with improving this recommendation.

Lesson planning.

Teachers all have the required credentials.

What do we do with kids that do not reach full potential? ||  ||