Chapter 3

The part of the chapter that most affected me this time around was about the importance of clear learning objectives.  That is something I have somewhat struggled with since most of my kids can't read until the end of the year so if I write them they seem to be mostly for my benefit and honestly with switching my license between 3 states and now adding in common core it is sometimes hard to keep all the objectives straight.  Our principal just bought us new objectives charts and in assembling my objectives, I decided on posting only objectives that have the words WITH an easy to understand icon that accompanies it.  While I was referring to my posted objectives before, now that they have icons my kids are much more invested in them and can  better express to others what they are learning.  I also typed up a checklist of those objectives (in the form of I Can statements) from the Common Core as well as my social studies and science objectives from Oregon in the same format and based off of this chapter I'm going to try to send home the checklist to parents on a regular basis to get the parents as invested in the objectives as their kids are beginning to be.  I'm glad this chapter coincided with the new focus of my school on getting the objectives posted and the book got me motivated to dive slightly more thoroughly into that process than I may have done otherwise.