2022/2023 | piyawansunasuan

Goal Setting 2022/2023

Area/ Topic to Be Addressed
Active learning in collaborative classroom

Where I am now?
Since I found a challenge during Covid-19 and hybrid classrooms, I would like to set a goal to empower students to collaborate and be more active learners in such situations. Thus, my current goal is to design instructions to highlight active learning where students involve more in the activity design in the classroom so they can be developed from dependent learners into self-directed learners. Then, the teacher can transition from being a coach to a consultant to support and facilitate their learning only. This aims to allow students to learn sustainably which also meets my long-term goal.

Goal Statement (My desired results)
Students are more self-direction than dependent learners.

Activities I will use to accomplish my goal
Design and develop explicit instruction guidelines as well as learning materials and supports for learners to enhance their self-direction.

Accomplishments at Year End

Meet the goals

1. Increase the collaboration in the classroom among students so students can be empowered and motivated which is the first step of building self-direction. For example, inviting alumni to give advice and inspiration to the class, having students decide and vote for their choices of projects, creating a mentorship program for university application practices in which students will pair with other teachers in school, and joining the Junior Achievement program so that students could enhance more team working and real-life problem-solving skills.

Teachers' Annual performance Review of the school year of 2022/2023

Observed by

Dr. Stephen C., Deputy Director of Academics for MUIDS

Focus of Observation: Return to In-Person Instruction: Active Learning

March 16, 2023

Observation: This was an observation of a 12th grade Skills for Leadership class. The objective for the day was for students to be able to work on finishing their report on the results of their business (primarily from the Student Market during Vichakarn Day and online sales). There were 26 students in the class: 21 girls and 5 boys. All students worked throughout the day. There were no tardy students or behavior problems. [Note: Due to the TOEFL exam later that day, this class was shortened to 40 minutes].

Commendations:

This is always important, but even more so during a student workday: mobility. I was gratified to see that you spent no time behind your desk at all, but were where the action was, which is always with the students. This allowed you to not only hold them accountable for working well and efficiently, but to also be available for them when they had questions.
You have taken the tools of educational technology and really put them to excellent use here. The students are demonstrating a facility with all of the tools of the Google Suite and integrating it into a relevant product that explicitly connects both in content and in the technical skills with their future careers.
All of your students were working well within their groups. Not only was there an appropriate division of labor, but each of the group members were contributing in a genuinely valuable way, rather than “busywork”. In addition, the students demonstrated a great deal of autonomy, obviously granted by you, but earned through their initiative and responsibility.
- One may argue that the above commendation is more a reflection of the students rather than the teaching, but I see it as a representation of the training you have given them over the course of the year. They could not have reached this high-functioning level had you not spent the time inculcating the habits and teaching the technical and interpersonal skills they would need to complete this enterprise. The fact that they did not seem to need you all that much is in fact a testament to your teaching.