Digital Resources and Goals

Today I shared our Instructional Rounds data and momentum plan with my entire staff.  I had just held a faculty meeting and shared how the ISTE standards require us to seek alternative resources for professional development and growth.  We reflected on the numerous resources from reliable sources that are available via Twitter, and other media.  So, in Instructional Rounds we found that we needed to find resources that would help us focus on improvement in our two target goal areas of higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy for teacher questions, and in increasing the levels of student discourse.  Put the two together (resources and goals) and we have found that there are numerous ways to help ourselves professionally and in turn, help our students achieve more and at higher levels.  We found videos, articles, anchor charts, and on and on that can help us master our goals and in turn help our students.  There are numerous professional websites, educational tools, and research based writers over the web that provide the resources that cannot be located through the typical print method.  I encourage our staff to seek resources and share them with their colleagues.  I look forward to seeing what we will find.