Professional Development Meme 2009

I haven't been tagged but took this from Miss Teacha at Confessions from the Couch.

Directions

Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical skills, work on that advanced degree or certification, pick up a new hobby, and finish many of the other items on our ever-growing To Do Lists. Let’s make Summer 2009 a time when we actually get to accomplish a few of those things and enjoy the thrill of marking them off our lists.

The Rules

NOTE: You do NOT have to wait to be tagged to participate in this meme.

1. Pick 1-3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
2. For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/07/09).
3. Post the above directions along with your 1-3 goals on your blog.
4. Title your post Professional Development Meme 2009 and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/2447.
5. Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme09.
6. Tag 5-8 others to participate in the meme.
7. Achieve your goals and “develop professionally.”
8. Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September

My summer PD goals:

1. Read Spencer Kagan's book on Cooperative Learning
2. Plan a different way to teach a repeater course. (They've been taught the standard way and it didn't work - I want to shake it up.)
3. Sort through my "stuff" (paper and books) to be more efficient.
4. Read Teaching Mathematics in the Block by Gilkey and Hunt.
5. Find someone to discuss the books with.