8-C-1

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Directions:
On the table below, add at least **five** events or activities you can do during the school year in the right column of the table. Each event or activity should help you address a component of the Achievement Triangle and be appropriate for the time in the school calendar.
 * 1) Click the **Edit** tab in the upper-right corner.
 * 2) Place your cursor in the table cell next to the month and achievement triangle section you want to contribute an event or activity idea to.
 * 3) Add your text in the cell.
 * 4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 for your remaining event and activity ideas.
 * 5) Press **Save** on the Editor bar.

Achievement Triangle Event and Activity Ideas List
Create a "bucket list" of things you want to do or improve upon thoughout the year to help you grow in your cultural competency and teaching. (Erin)
 * Month || **Achievement Triangle** || Event and Activity Ideas ||
 * August || Know Self || Create an affirmation about yourself and your teaching and display it to remind yourself of who you are and your strengths. (Erin)


 * Cultural competency self-assessment checklist**- I found a number of these online, mostly for health workers, as this one is, but it's pretty good and can be easily adapted for use in schools and classrooms. (http://nccc.georgetown.edu/documents/ChecklistBehavioralHealth.pdf ), I found it through National Center for Cultural Competence website (http://nccc.georgetown.edu/resources/publicationstype.html#checklists ) ||
 * August || Know Students || **First Day of School Activity -** Have students create a comprehensive list of topics and/or activities they would like to learn about in the Health and Physical Education setting. (Daniel)

introductions, share teacher expectations and discuss any needs of the family. Also, create a communication plan that is effective for the family. (Eric)
 * ESL Student Parent Conference** – Set up an initial face-to-face conference to make

(Alan)
 * Multiple Intelligences and Intelligent behaviors** - Related to interest inventory, this helps gets to know students on an individual level of learning styles and needs, it also gives a baseline to asses changing. It is this very basic form that students can fill out and the teacher keeps on file, I developed it from materials in another PLS course)
 * Student KWL chart** – When the role for classes is received make a KWL chart for each class about the studets cultures and back grounds. (Alan)


 * Graduation**- While many schools are beginning, my academic year ends with students from the previous calendar year who earned a GED participating in a graduation ceremony open to department teachers and families of my students who make the trip. (Jeff)

Make sure my lesson plans are based on standards and reflective of the students' IEPs and use research-based methods and reflect current best practices (Chasati) ||
 * Community Study** - Perform a demographic study of the community in which I live and teach. Through the research results create a list of possible lesson topics, games and activities that incorporate every demographic and can be implemented in the PE setting to help students raise their own awareness of the diversity in their surrounding school and community. (Daniel) ||
 * August || Know Practice || **Cultural Competency Article** – Find and read one educational research article on cultural competency. Share the article or its finding with a colleague to provide a renewed focus to cultural competency to start the school year. (Eric)
 * September || Know Self ||  ||
 * September || Know Students || **Interest Inventory** – Complete an interest inventory of students to begin the process of creating authentic relationships. Inventory should cover students’ academic strengths and weakness, personal interests, family background and cultural interests. (Eric)


 * International Picnic** - A Saturday picnic where each student and family brings a traditional food from their culture/heritage/nationality.(This may work better in international schools, but some schools in bigger cities in the US it may work.) Families can also have the option of wearing traditional dress or playing music or singing a song. (Alan) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">September || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || **Team Teaching Meetings** - this should be a regular thing where teachers from more than one subject area meet and look at what each teacher is doing and share what works, what's new, what hasn't work and discuss how to adjust those things. Also includes peer observations both within one's own subject department and in other subject departments. (Alan) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Have students create their own "Where I am From" poems. (Erin) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || **1st Quarter Reflection** – Use Gary Howards’ Achievement Triangle as a guide to reflect on the cultural progress that has been made during the first marking period, especially focusing on the relationship intersection. (Eric)
 * End of Semester**- Reflect upon student progress and my pacing of lessons. Review GED practice test scores to see which students qualify to take the GED. (Jeff) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || **Self/Student interaction self-assessment** - Go down the list of students in all classes and look at each student that is doing poorly or below average so far in the term and ask yourself these questions: Could there be any cultural elements that are affecting their progress? Have I unintentionally built up any biases against this student or this culture? Have I thought of this student's progress as solely the fault of the student and family? Write a brief reflection on interactions with any student that you answer yes to these questions for. (Alan) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || **Student KWL chart** – Revisit the KWL charts for each class to see how much have larned, and if there are gaps focus on that for the next term. (Alan)

As it is December and most schools have a break around this time and many cultures have celebrations of some sort around this time (give or take a month) it would be a good time to have students talk about their culture or religion's practices, decorations on the wall. (Alan)

Conduct Career Interest Inventories in order to update Transition Plans prior to the next year's IEP development Jan-April (Chasati) ||
 * New semester-** As new semester begins, I read student files to learn more about students entering my class. (Jeff) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Reflect on the gains my students have made in the first semester and adjust my planning/methods accordingly prior to second semester (Chasati) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || Revisit the affirmation and bucket list you created at the beginning of the year to see how you have progressed...what you have done, what you may want to add and what you still have to do. (Erin) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || **Multiple Intelligences and Intelligent behaviors** - give this again to see if students feel they have changed, compare to the first one.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Mid Year Peer Observation – Set-up a peer observation and create a list of questions to gauge your cultural competency. The observation can serve to improve teachers’ rigor. (Eric) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Implement Black History Games lesson plan in the PE setting to promote knowledge, understanding and respect for the African American Culture as we celebrate the achievements of the Black Race during Black History Monty. The lesson plan provides opportunities to engage in physical activity while teaching awareness of some of the famous inventors and entreprenuers during Black History Month. The lesson can be found at http://pecentral.com/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=9077. (Daniel) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || **Semester change**- I review my pacing for lessons last semester and plan for the upcoming term as students have "down week" while those who are ready take practice GED tests. (Jeff) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || **Annual training-** Every year I participate in quite a few days of training and certification. It usually occurs in the spring. These trainings include Safe Crisis Management and CPR (Jeff) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Have students create a Vision Board, but allow them to include highlights from the school year as well as expectations for the future. (Erin) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || Reflect on and write areas of personal strength, growth and need that you noticed throughout the year. Brainstorm ways to improve upon the needs and further develop the strengths. (Erin) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || **Multiple Intelligences and Intelligent behaviors** - give this again to see if students feel they have changed, compare to the first and second ones. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Have students complete an end-of-the-year survey addressing likes, dislikes, and opinions on various aspects of the year. This will help you see how things went from their perspective. (Erin)


 * End of Year Survey** - Have second grade students leaving the elementary building identify the lessons, games and activities they enjoyed the most in their three years in Elementary PE. Furthermore, have students list the lesson, games and activities they feel helped them learn the most about diversity, teamwork, sportsmanship and cooperation. Furthermore, ask each student to identify one topic or lesson that was the least favorite and they feel did not help them learn about their community and/or how to positively interact with their classmates. (Daniel) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || Attend professional development in areas that I feel I need to improve or strengthen for the upcoming year (Chasati)


 * End of the Year Review** - Set-up and end of the year meeting with the Life Skills/Special Education teacher to identify strengths and weaknesses of the past years Adaptive PE program. Discuss the incoming Adaptive PE students and clearly establish a comprehensive list of of the students disabilities as well as disabilities. Using this information establish several clear objectives and goals for the next years Adaptive PE class with the Life Skills/Special Education teacher. (Daniel) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Pull IEP information from Easy IEP database and get to know the disabilities and needs of any new students so that I am prepared on the first day- Aug 6 next year (Chasati)
 * Student KWL chart** – Revisit the KWL charts for each class to see what more I have learned about the students and file that cultural information away for future use. (Alan)
 * Graduation prep-** Graduation is right around the corner, students who will "walk" in the ceremony will practice. The valedictorian is selected and writes a speech to share with those attending the ceremony. (Jeff) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||