The synthesis paper has five sections. The length of each section is up to you, but the paper should be 3–5 pages, double spaced. You may cite from your discussion entries, as appropriate, as part of your response. Also be sure to cite appropriate references from the course materials. Write in an essay format as you respond to each section.
SECTION ONE
Evaluate your original goal statement and Professional Growth Plan: Two months have passed since you wrote your goal statement and developed a Professional Growth Plan for the course. Looking back, was your plan realistic? Would you do anything differently if you were able to go back in time and rewrite it? What have you learned from the process of developing a Professional Growth Plan?
SECTION TWO
Analyze your progress: Discuss the progress you have made toward your goal. Are you closer to your goal today than you were at the time you wrote your Professional Growth Plan? On what evidence do you base your response? Have you grown or progressed in other ways not directly related to your stated goal? Explain.
If you were to assess yourself today on the same Framework for Teaching components you assessed yourself on when you taught your lesson for the course project, how might your performance levels or level of expertise have changed?
Include a 2+2 on your progress over the last eight weeks: two things that went well, and two things that could be improved.
SECTION THREE
Reflect on the course project: Demonstrate that you have met the project objectives. Discuss what you have learned from:
• Observing your colleagues.
• Having your colleagues observe you.
• Videotaping a classroom performance.
• Using the Framework for Teaching.
• Using the 2+2 Feedback.
• Coaching and giving or receiving feedback.
• Using evidence and artifacts to focus reflection and improve instruction.
• Summarizing what was the most valuable and what was the least valuable activity or strategy in terms of potential for improvement of instruction.
SECTION FOUR
Reflect on the course: Discuss five concepts, ideas, or skills you have learned in the course readings and discussions that are of significance for you. Why do you find them of value? Which will you pursue further?
Discuss two questions the course has raised for you. If new knowledge does not generate questions, the learning process has come to a halt!
SECTION FIVE
Develop growth opportunities: Discuss new growth opportunities you have identified through work on your Professional Growth Plan and the knowledge and skills developed in the course.
• What new goals do you have?
• Will you continue your current Professional Growth Plan? Modify it? Develop a new one?
• On what evidence do you base your response?
• In what ways can you envision working more collaboratively with your peers?
• How would you sustain the initiatives you have made with your peers and school community in peer coaching and reflective conversations?
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