My name is Mary Eun and I am currently a math teacher at Mount Rainier High School in the Highline School District. I teach Algebra and Geometry with a conditional certificate. This is my 2nd year of teaching. I taught high school math at this same school in the spring of 2009, also with a conditional certificate. I am currently enrolled in the ARC – MAT program at Seattle Pacific University to get certificated with a math endorsement.
I have changed careers. I was an engineer, Total Quality consultant, data analyst, and supply chain manager for a large corporation. I have always wanted to teach, and am thankful for the chance to pursue this calling.
The work of learning to teach while teaching has been demanding and rewarding. I feel a great responsibility to my students and am continuously experimenting with what will work better. I feel great support from my fellow teachers and am thankful to find people I enjoy collaborating with. I am glad that I’m on this path toward certification and know that I will keep getting better.
Mary,
I really appreciated that in your metareflections, you really reflect on your growth and learning process rather than merely reporting your current understandings. That is a real plus. You satisfy the state requirements with this portfolio, but I would encourage you to do a couple of things. First, highlight the student work/responses. That is your most powerful evidence. One has to follow the link to each lesson plan and scroll to the bottom before seeing student responses. Also,reading a label like ‘student exit task,’ one doesn’t automatically assume the link will show student responses to the task. Second, more student evidence would enhance your Standard T page. Third, you need to emphasize integration more under standard S. I have listed below your score for each criterion along with the mean score for each standard.
S-4,4,3=3.67
T-3,3,3,4=3.25
L-5,4,4=4.33
P-4,5,4=4.33
Bill Safstrom
Mary,
I inadvertently left a number out of the score I reported to you under Standard L. It should have read, L-5,4,4,3=4.0
Bill Safstrom