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Meeting Your Goal And Impacting Student Achievement

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Year-End Progress Update - Describe the final results of your action plan and how successful you were in meeting your goal and impacting student achievement. In the last part of the year, Kim and I spent our time focusing on different classroom practices between the Virtual and Blended classrooms. In particular, we focused on whether we identified our classrooms as traditional or differentiated. For this we used a Classroom Practices Inventory that I was given in a graduate level course I was taking. Kim and I both separately used the Classroom Practices Inventory to categorize our classroom practices, and then brought them back to compare our findings. Since Kim and I both teach Civics, but in two different settings, it was interesting to see the outcome of this study. For the most part, we had similar ways of running our classrooms and including students in different classroom activities. However, there were 2 areas in particular that were different. First, Kim identified that she tends to group her students based on their learning needs while I tended to group students heterogeneously. This is something we knew would be different due to our learning environments. Kim, who sees her students on a daily basis, is able to identify the learning needs of her students and understand how to meet all their needs in a group environment. In the blended classroom, I am less likely to do this because I have a different student population every month. While I may have a few students

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