Goal Setting

Today I had the first conference as part of my evaluation. The meeting was with one of the vice-principals. The purpose was to explain the evaluation process to me, and to let me know what else needs to happen. This is partly to give me feedback, and partly for the district to make sure they have quality teachers, and for the school to have some information on whether they want to hire me next year. I was also able to have the schools curriculum goals explained to me since I missed the pre-service meetings and I had no idea what they were. At the end I was given an opportunity to come up with some professional goals. My goal is to not fail any student. I am starting to get a good idea of those students I need to keep an eye on to insure that.
Tomorrow I start teaching the two new classes. As of 4:30 today one class had 13, the other 6. I am assuming that those numbers will go up. While I was preparing I had some of my future students wander in and introduce themselves. I was planning on not doing much math tomorrow, and the vice principal stressed on how much she agreed with that. This way I have some time to figure out where these students are and whether I need to reteach some of the material. It should be fun.