The handwritten note on the right is from another teacher at Julius West, and it is evidence that I have built professional relationships with colleagues to share teaching insights.  My colleague also teaches ESOL 1, and we plan our lessons together every Friday for the upcoming week.  We discuss plans, share resources, and divide the planning responsibilities.  We work very well together, and we both benefit from our collaboration.  She provides invaluable experience and knowledge of available resources, and I bring fresh ideas and a different perspective.

 

 

 

The meeting schedule on the right is from a METS team meeting at my school.  The MCPS acting METS coordinator visited my school to conduct this meeting.  At the meeting, we discussed the support we are providing to METS students and their families, expressed our concerns about specific students' performance (and offered action steps to be taken as a team), and reported assessment data from our specific METS classes.  This was a very useful meeting because it provided the teachers and supporting staff an opportunity to collaborate specifically on how to best help our METS students.

 

 

 

The blue meeting agenda below is from the middle school ESOL teachers' meeting that was held in September.  At this meeting, I was able to learn about challenges facing ESOL curriculum writers from curriculum specialists and weigh in on challenges facing ESOL teachers.  I was also able to work with other middle school ESOL teachers in the development of the revised ESOL 2 curriculum.  Also, I participated in a training on the Discovery Streaming website.  This session was very beneficial as I have put things I learned there to use in my classes.  Finally, the meeting ended with ESOL 1 teachers sharing web resources with each other, some of which I have also put to use in my classes.  All in all, I got a lot out of the MCPS meeting.