PGPP-T Bird High School

Week Of: February 7, 2010

Team Characteristic: Teamwork

Personal Characteristic: Frustrated/Literary Writing/Researcher

BRIEF Description of Activity/Situation:
Chesterfield County Schools has piloted the PGPP-T for the past two years at select schools. Bird High School was fortunate to pilot this form of evaluation for their staff. I am working with Jim Glass and Thomas Ferrell Jr. on the following objectives:
(1) To Identify content of goals that teachers have set?
(2) Is there a difference in pass rates versus the content of goals?
(3) The amount of time spent per teacher: observing, conferencing, developing goals, etc.

Reflection:
We have collected data and were able to speak to Dr. Beth Teigen the principal of Bird High School, to see exactly what she wanted as the client. She state the objectives were in line with what she wanted and told us to concentrate our efforts on the two main subject areas for accreditation, English and Math. As we concentrate our efforts, it has become easy to focus our studies and the collection of data. The main issue for me at this time is the Literature Review. It is hard to take large pieces of literature and pick out the most important parts to focus on one objective to which each member of the group selected. Just like the legal writing the literary review will come to me, it just gets frustrating when you put effort into making a product as good as it can be, but you still miss the mark. I know this is what being a doctoral candidate is all about, frustration, long days and nights, constant editing and research, second guessing, collective bargaining with group members, and most of all believing that your work does have meaning and will stand for something when it is all said and done.