I’ve been tagged by Greg Cruey, who came across this at Clif’s Notes recently.
Directions
Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical skills, work on that advanced degree or certification, pick up a new hobby, and finish many of the other items on our ever-growing To Do Lists. Let’s make Summer 2009 a time when we actually get to accomplish a few of those things and enjoy the thrill of marking them off our lists.
The Rules
NOTE: You do NOT have to wait to be tagged to participate in this meme.
* Pick 1-3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
* For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/07/09).
* Post the above directions along with your 1-3 goals on your blog.
* Title your post Professional Development Meme 2009 and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/2447.
* Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme09.
* Tag 5-8 others to participate in the meme.
* Achieve your goals and “develop professionally.”
* Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September.
My Goals
- Read the book Why Students Don’t Like School and participate in the book club conversation around it over at Dangerously Irrelevant
- Become more familiar with the new courses I will be teaching come September, including understanding the learning evaluation situations that go along with them
Ethics and Religous Culture, Current World Events, the new History program, and Visual Arts
- Develop a personal website to house my blogs and class pages in one space
My Tags
I'm Tracy and I've been writing about teaching and learning at Leading From The Heart since February 2007. For more of my story, see
Well, i bought the book and really like it. been through 2 chapters.
But, I didn’t get signed up for the book club fast enough. Shame.
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Looks like I posted this too late to allow you to sign up – I’m sorry! But, since you are reading the book why don’t you participate anyways? Go here and find all the details:
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/06/summerbookclub04.html
I’m in Group 2 (orange)
Also, if there is something you’d like to post as a post rather than a comment I’d happily lend you my login and you can be my guest blogger – Nowhere in the rules is that disallowed :)
Tracy Rosen´s last blog ..Professional Development Meme 2009
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Thanks for participating in the 2009 pdmeme. I look forward to hearing about your successes in September.
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