Comprehensive and Collaborative Strategic Planning and Assessment

Jan L. Granger

Standard Four Program Administration

I. Managing Information Resources II. Managing Program Resources

III. Comprehensive and Collaborative Strategic Planning and Assessment

As a media specialist, I will work with my fellow teachers to plan, instruct and assess student achievement in the media center. To this partnership I will bring experience from previous lessons and offer insights to improve future instruction. I will take the classroom teachers knowledge of their learners and base the pace and direction of daily lessons to best meet the particular achievement level of the learners. By using formative assessments in my media instruction, I will also be able to assess the progress of students, and make changes in my teaching techniques to match their diverse needs.

Artifact and Reflection
	As a requirement of my middle school practicum experience, I had to complete a project that was of benefit to the media center or school as a whole. The media specialist I was working with asked me to analyze data that he had collected to see if instruction and grading of note cards and pathfinders had improved during the three years he worked with a particular cohort. After meeting with a school statistician to gather some design ideas, I organized the grades in a spreadsheet and then incorporated the data into several charts in order to visualize the progress of the students over three years. The link below contains the raw data I used, an example of one of the charts I created, and a written analysis of what I discovered after completing the project. When I begin in my own media center this fall, I will participate in the grading of research projects and track my own progress through that data. I will use the analysis to base my decisions on how to teach and in which areas I should assist in the assessment. By using these methods of grade keeping and analysis, I am able to assess data and make decisions on which to base plans and policies.