productive meetings

This week has been a successful week meeting wise. I was able to meet with my principal and discuss my plan. I was also able to meet with my coworker that I am going to presenting with in a couple of weeks to share about formative assessment and standards based grading. I shared my action research plan with her also and she had some ideas to improve the implementation process. The third meeting I had was with the other science teacher on my grade level. After discussing my action research, some of the suggestions for implementation that I am going to include in the plan will be to apply the program to all fifth graders in both my and Mr. Waldrip's classroom. I will produce the student progress monitoring tool that will be in every students lab journal and they will have the opportunity to track their own progress. Mr. Waldrip and I will give them feedback on their formative assessments and they will record it in their journals. It is at that point that they will have to determine what score they will settle on. Our hope is that this will give the student better ownership of their education. Because we are talking about 10 year olds in fifth grade, we will have them take their journals home to have parents sign off that they know where their students stand academically.