Happy New Year!
We are all back at work, starting up our capstone projects and discovering new information to help the educational world. I am feeling up to the challenge of solving some educational challenges in the world - or at least in my school building. This is going to be a long 4 months, but I have started with a good sleep regimen (my New Year's resolution!).
I will be working with my colleagues to uncover the main obstacles they face teaching English Learners in their high school classrooms. I have started collecting data through my initial survey asking how many of the English Learner specific strategies and techniques are being used in their classrooms, what their biggest obstacles are in teaching ELs, and their feelings towards professional development. Now comes the work. I will interview each of these teachers, and try to implement PD with these teachers for the spring. January is the big testing month for ELD, which means I will be busy giving the ACCESS test to all English Learners, while trying to interview my colleagues during lunch, plan times, after school, or over coffee. We all know teachers are always incredibly busy, but these next few months will be taking it to a new level.
I have been excited to receive surveys back, and hope to start scheduling interviews next week. Let the journey begin!
