Documented Accomplishments: Contributions to Student Learning

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Documented Accomplishments Contributions to
Student Learning
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Types of Accomplishments

• You as a collaborator / leader.
• You as a learner.
• You as a partner with family and community.

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Types of Accomplishments You as a Collaborator
/ Leader

• Grade level or department chairperson
• Team leader
• Club or organization sponsor
• Staff development facilitator
• Grant writer / Curriculum writer
• Activities coordinator
• Anything that you lead or that you took the
  initiative to coordinate

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Types of Accomplishments You as a Learner

• Workshop / Staff development
• Advanced coursework / additional certifications
  or licenses
• Conferences
• Anything from which you gained knowledge

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Types of AccomplishmentsYou as a Partner

• Planning and implementing events or programs or
  staff development
• Writing / receiving grants
• Any activity in which you worked with students,
  parents, community members in a two-way dialogue
  and planning process

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Writing the Documented Accomplishments
DESCRIPTION
SIGNIFICANCE
STUDENT LEARNING
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Description

• What is the accomplishment about?
• Describing the accomplishment, the event, the
  program, the workshop, the course, the grant, the
  curriculum
• Describing what you actually did, planned,
  organized, implemented, created, attended,
  facilitated

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Significance

• Why is the accomplishment important?
• Why is the accomplishment important for you, for
  your school, for your students?
• So what? Why even write about this
  accomplishment?
• How does the accomplishment make you better and
  go beyond your regular job?

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Impact to Student Learning

• What do your students KNOW or what are they able
  to do now as a result of this accomplishment?
  How have they learned?
• How did your accomplishment directly or
  indirectly impact student learning?

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Impact to Student Learning

• What would a specific student say about your
  accomplishment, your involvement in the
  professional experience?
• How would that student say your accomplishment
  impacted him or her?
• How did this accomplishment improve that
  students learning?

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Impact to Student Learning

• Can you prove you, your students, your school
  couldnt do without this accomplishment?
• Can you prove the accomplishment with parent
  feedback, action research, test scores?

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Documentation

• In what ways can you prove that you have done all
  of these accomplishments?
• Verification forms / Letters and notes / Emails /
  Newsletters (school or PTA) / Webpages /
  Communication logs / Pictures / News articles /

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Reflection

• Analyze the effectiveness of your accomplishments
• What is the overall significance of your
  accomplishments?
• What is the overall impact to student learning?
• What patterns and connections do you see?