What is Your Focus?

Now that we are working our way toward the end of the calendar year, we can take the opportunity to ask ourselves some important questions about what we have done since August. One of the most important questions we can ask ourselves is "What is my focus?"

Many of us are thinking about what we've done over the past few months and are looking forward to the end of the semester. Some of us are assessing our progress in dealing with challenges - discipline, academic, personal - and asking what we need to do differently after the Winter Break. Others are trying to understand benchmark results. The primary question underlying our thoughts is, "what is our focus?"

Focus is understanding the goal and objective before planning the lesson.

Focus is planning an assessment which reflects the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy level of the objective.

Focus is teaching the standard course of study.

Focus is managing the pacing of your course so that items assessed by the benchmark are the items you have already taught.

Are you focused?