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Every January, when everyone is sharing their New Year’s resolutions, I sometimes throw a couple on the table, but this feels like such an unnatural time for me to make resolutions and goals.
Since I was born, with an exception of about three years in between finishing my bachelor’s degree and starting teaching, my “year” has revolved around on a North American school schedule. My parents were teachers and then I was in school and ultimately, I became a teacher. So August and September seems like the best time for me to make my resolutions and goals.
A few of these are personal and a few are professional.
PERSONAL
1. Drink more water – this seems simple enough, but I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve come home from school and realized that I didn’t drink more than a glass of water at lunch and I was active all day.
2. Be balanced – mostly this is making sure I’m not behind my computer screen all day and home at night. I want to be with my kids 100% when I am with them, not trying to get work done in between playing games or having conversations with them over my screen.
PROFESSIONAL (more details can be found here)
3. Improve my technical skill levels – both with food technology and digital technology.
4. Improve the quality of my students products by improving their knowledge, skills and techniques – using a differentiated, skills-based foundation for my design cycle units.
**This is the Design Department’s Student Learning Goal**
5. Further develop our Digital Citizenship curriculum around our Responsible Use Policy and the IB Learner Profile.
6. Work with our librarian and MYP Coordinator to articulate the Approaches to Teaching and Learning.
7. Integrate technology more holistically – plan and work with teachers across all content areas to make sure technology is authentically used.
Julie Lemley 