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// An Action Plan is a plan for making a teaching change that will enhance your students understanding of mathematics. //
 * Action Plan **

Name Ann George School Brewster High School Teaching assignment Geometry, Algebra 2, PreCalculus, Calculus Describe your student population (approximate number, ethnicity, language, etc) 277 students, 70% Latino, 23% ELL (Spanish)
 * Describe your teaching situation **

What teaching change (instruction, assessment, materials) you like to improve? Explain how your teaching change will improve your students’ ability to learn mathematics. Also, describe possible ways that technology might assist you in making your teaching change. I'm planning to concentrate of helping my students become more independent learners. I plan to use cooperative learning most days. Last year I incorporated Geometer's sketchpad, calculator activities and vidieos from YouTube. Next year I want to include many more Geometer's Skectpad and calculator activities. I want to add Fathom and motion detector activities. I think that an increased use of technology will be more fun so students will be more engaged. Activities that use technology are usually more hands on. I know from last year that hands-on activities help them see and remember the mathematics. I want them to understand that mathmatics is a system that makes sense and that what they are learning follows from what they already know. I want them to get more confident about their ability to figure things out for themselves.
 * Describe your teaching change **

Identify at least two teaching goals (measurable accomplishment that if met would enable your students to learn mathematics more effectively). My first goal is to get cooperative learning to work effectively. This would mean that students work with little teacher intervention needed. My second goal is that students become comfortable with sharing their ideas about how to solve problems with the class.
 * Set Teaching Goals **

Describe at least two things you are going to do as a teacher to accomplish your teaching goals. These actions may or may not use technology but if they do not use technology, explain why technology is or is not the best teaching tool for your teaching change.
 * Describe Teaching Actions **

I'm going to apply the ideas of complex instruction to set up cooperative learning groups. I'm going to incorporate more technology in order to help my students understand better and feel more confident sharing what they have learned.

Identify how you are going to assess each of your teaching goals (simple method of collecting information to see if your teach goals was met).
 * Assess Teaching Goals **

I will access my cooperative learning goal by keeping dialy records of student interaction in the groups and number of times that I need to intervene. As the year progresses I will look for trends in my records. I will also keep records of student sharing and look for trends in this data too.

Outline a general timeline that identifies when you are going to use your actions, collect your assessment data
 * Timeline **

I will begin collecting data at the beginnig of the school year.

Write a reflection on the results of your action plan. What was difficult? What worked well? How did your students react to the changes you made? What was the impact on student learning?
 * Reflection **