Performance+and+Development

=Performance and Development=


 * **My Goals** || **Comments** || **Reflections** ||
 * **Biology STAV Conference 2008** || An early 5am start and a trip down to Melbourne to Bundoora. The conference wasn't too bad. Managed to obtain some excellent resources which was promising. Ordered some student activity manuals and some practical sacs. || A good chance to do some networking with other teachers. If only we could set up something more local would be fantastic. What happened to our meetings we used to have at cluster PD days? What happened to cluster PD days? :( ||
 * **Continue to develop wiki and prepare for Ultranet** || Continue to work on my wiki as a resource for students, developing units of work that can be completed online || A devistating loss of my laptop harddrive in an unfortunate accident, meant that i had lost a lot of my documents. Fortunately i had managed to back up some of them. ||
 * **Working on podcasts / vodcasts for revision for Yr 11 & 12 Biology students** || Develop some podcasts and vodcasts for my Year 11 and 12 Biology students. Try to incorporate ICT into my Biology curriculum as much as possible || 13/03/08 - Have successfully made 2 podcasts and 1 vodcast. Well not really a vodcast, but a podcast with pictures on it. As yet i don't think any of my students have listened to it. DOH!

14/4/08 - one student listened to half... apparently its crap :) ||
 * **Work on literacy in my Science subjects** || Currently in Science classes, I work hard to develop my students literacy skills. The issue I work with the most is attempting to develop students understanding on the meaning of words. For example Photosynthesis - we break the word up and look at the original of Photo - refering to light, and synthesis - putting together, or making. Haem - referring to the blood. This helps students understand the origins of words and gives them skills to find the meaning behind new words that they encounter. || 13/03/08 - Have begun getting articles from New Scientist and making up some questions to help comprehension and understanding. ||
 * **Coaching** || Worked with CM to look at engagement in Science subjects || Aug 08 - ||
 * **PD for Next year** || Do professional development in the fields of Physical Education and VCAL. ||  ||