Entry 4: Documented Accomplishments

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Entry 4 Documented Accomplishments

• By Marci Hargrove

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What are documented accomplishments?

• Evidence that supports you as a
• Partner with students families and the community
• Leader and/or collaborator
• Learner

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Getting Started.

• Begin saving documentation that is directly
  connected to the standards AND can be DIRECTLY
  connected to student learning.

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• REMEMBER you can go back five years on your
  documentation to support you as a
  leader/collaborator and as a learner.
• Documentation that supports your work with your
  students families can only go back 12 months
  from the date that your portfolio is due.

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What is the impact on student learning????

• This is the big question to ask as you are trying
  to decide on what accomplishments you are
  actually going to focus on.
• If an accomplishment does not show an impact on
  student learning, do not include it.

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What is required on the entry?

• A written description and analysis of the
  accomplishment.
• WHAT is the accomplishment?
• WHY is it significant?
• A reflective summary
• WHAT is the impact on student learning?

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Deciding which accomplishments to use

• Ask yourself HOW you use what you learned at a
  workshop or training to better your classroom
  practice??
• Ask yourself what was the impact on student?

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HELPFUL HINTS

• Keep a communication log to show ongoing
  communication with your families
• Focus on interactive communication
• Stay within your page limit
• Reread all of your directions

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Always Ask..

• What was the impact on student learning?
• What was the impact on student learning?
• What was the impact on student learning?
• What was the impact on student learning?
• What was the impact on student learning?