by vfitzjarrald | Jan 30, 2013 | Teaching & Administration
If you know me, you know that I seldom look at the news in my everyday routine. I generally find that life is better with fewer headlines in it. Yesterday was an exception to that rule. When I woke up, I checked the local news station to see if their was a snow day...
by vfitzjarrald | Jan 29, 2013 | Featured, Teaching & Administration
As it turns out, I am in the process of working with and developing curriculum as part of my Johns Hopkins program. In my course, we have spent the last month critiquing the four aspects of curriculum (written, taught, assessed, and hidden) to determine if the goals...
by vfitzjarrald | Jan 21, 2013 | Teaching & Administration
In the current school environment, there are many stakeholders that have a variety of perspectives on how schools should be managed. As each stakeholder tries to push their own agenda regarding curriculum, schools are caught in the middle. Some of the stakeholders...
by vfitzjarrald | Dec 10, 2012 | Teaching & Administration
Recently, I conducted a peer observation on a member of the Staff at my school. It was an interesting process, and one that was valuable to me as a new administrator. As part of the evaluation, we were required to record our post observation conference. Due to some...
by vfitzjarrald | Dec 7, 2012 | Featured, Teaching & Administration
It is here, the University of Delaware Student Engagement Conference! I am very excited to be invited to present at this conference and I am even more excited to be presenting and debating with Dr. Duncan from the University of Colorado. As I progress through the day,...
by vfitzjarrald | Oct 29, 2012 | Teaching & Administration
For the past three years, I have been very interested classroom layout, and how that plays out in student learning. During my Masters Program, a professor briefly mentioned the effect a physical layout can have. Recently, I was asked to help a teacher reorganize her...
