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= = = Catie Wooten's Professional Teaching = media type="custom" key="6431603" As a part of my continuing education and professional development, I keep a portfolio of my progress throughout each school year. This helps me to reflect on my collaborative inquiry project, my feedback from students and parents and other work I do throughout the year. It is my goal that the portfolio process will help me document my improvement to my teaching practice, collaboration with others, and progress toward the district goals.

Why a wiki?
In the past few years, I have been committed to the use of wikis both in and outside of the classroom. I use of a wiki in both of my classes. I use this as a place to store files for students, share assignments, keep track of homework, ask for feedback, implement formative assessments and share other useful links and information. It is fair to say that wikis have changed my practice. While a wiki may or may not be the best tool for a portfolio, it is one I have found useful. This is the second year for my portfolio to be on a wiki.

Background Information
This is my fourth year teaching, and my fourth year at Yarmouth High School. I currently teach Physical Science as a member of the Freshman Team and one section of Biology to sophomores. The focus of my portfolio this year is work that Mike Weiss and I started last year on developing an honors challenge program as a way to meet the needs of a wide range of learners in a heterogeneous science classroom.

I have a background in science, particularly Earth Science, from Cornell. I hold an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University in Science Education. Outside of school, I love to hike and snowshoe.

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