Goals

Performance review
Danny and I have organised my goals for the year for my performance review. I have chosen, after some deliberation, to focus on writing (as we will be concentrating our staff study group on writing this semester) and sportsmanship skills across all year levels. I also tagged my own goal for art so that I'd have a goal for each area I teach which is to create more open ended, creative art lessons (trying to pull away from the theories that creativity is squashed by teachers).

Writing
I am looking forward to developing my writing lessons as I am not super comfortable at the moment because I only teach writing once a week and I have never before organised to watch a writers workshop with any of the staff before, so I'm unsure as to how I should be running writing lessons in the junior area.

Sportsmanship
I am also excited to see the improvement of sportsmanship across the school, however I am unsure as to how I should go about teaching and encouraging good sportsmanship differently to how I have already been doing it for the past year... I'll be researching to try and find some new ideas and have asked that teachers in classrooms really praise good sportsmanship in the classroom to encourage it in my PE classes.

Art
Art classes in the first semester were quite structured and I had an idea of what students' work should look like when they finished, however I will be trying my best to create more open ended activities to allow for individual creativity to shine through. I expect it to be fun for me as well as each piece of work will be a surprise!