565 Week 2

It was interesting to delve a little deeper into WINNS data this week. While I have been exposed to it at staff meetings, I have never poked around the website myself. The most interesting piece of information that I found was how the percent of students performing at the advanced and proficient levels has increased in the past five years. In November of 2005, 80.8% of our 10th grade students were performing at the advanced/proficient levels. That rate has been steading increasing, and was at 89% in 2009. It was also intersting to see that female students scored advanced/proficent at a rate of 93% on the 10th grade WKCE reading test, while 82% of male students were advanced/proficient. When it came to math, 87% of the females were advanced/profcient, while only 79% of the males were. Overall, more female students were advanced in reading, while more male students were advanced in math. But, when one adds in the proficent category, the girls are doing better than the guys.

565 Week 1

This week we started our teacher leadership course. This year, I moved from the middle school to the high school, and switched from German to social studies. One thing that I was greatly looking forward to was having a department to share ideas with! When I was at the middle school, I was the only one teaching German. Now, I have eight colleagues who are also teaching social studies, two of those are teaching the same courses that I teach! Having others to discuss curriculum with has made the transition to the high school easier. The department shares curriculum ideas with me, and I share my technology knowledge with them........