At my current school, we have a Professional Learning Community meeting every Tuesday and Thursday. The topics of these PLCs have ranged from "Text Complexity" to "How to Deliver an effective Closure." I have been professionally developed on the topics of school improvement plans, differentiating instruction, blah, blah, blah. Many of the sessions are meetings in which my principal or other administrators tell the teachers everything they are doing wrong in an area. I never feel professionally developed at all.
I feel that my weakest area is assessing student progress. I am not consistent with testing them every week or two weeks. I have a hard time with making accommodations and remediating students. I am yet to receive professional development in the areas that I struggle most.
I think that I would better serve my students if I knew how to assess them properly. I also feel that I would be able to enhance my instruction if I had data to drive that instruction. Our district gives 9 weeks exams. I know that the students have struggled because I am failing them in using the data throughout the 9 weeks in order to better prepare them.
I wish I could be professionally developed on how to better serve my advanced and IEP students. They gave me the IEP which tells what the student's level is, but no real instruction on how to teach the child. I find it difficult to differentiate and keep up with all the paperwork and planning that goes into teaching the special needs children.
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