knowledge of subject matter, students, the
community, and curriculum goals.”
Our 4th grade team members work very closely together. Each week we meet together to discuss the happenings and to plan instruction for the next week. As we share our ideas and insights with one another, we make each other better and provide our fourth graders with the best experience and instruction possible. We meet to plan long term, as well, such as our science and social studies core and rotations and to map out our yearly math core.
reflection
Weekly planning of lessons has been invaluable to me during my first years of teaching. Each week (sometimes daily) since my first day of teaching I have sat down with my team to look back on the week’s events and to plan instruction for the next week. We discuss what we notice about the kids in our classrooms (because we rotate and see each others students every week)and decide where to go from there. Each time we meet we decide what to teach based on our students—what they do well, what they need, what their personalities are, and what they need to know to succeed. When we collaborate together as a team, we build off of each other and each one of our strengths contributes to the overall good of the fourth grade of Discovery Elementary.
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