Evaluations this week
Published by Sister Carolyn (Principal) September 28th, 2007 in Announcements.
This week I added two more teacher evaluations to the list of things I accomplished. Between fire drills and hot lunch, budgets and board meetings, I was able to squeeze in both, Mrs. Svitak, jr. high math and Mrs. Donovan, 3rd grade. I love seeing the interesting ways our teachers utilize the same size spaces. All our classrooms are approximately the same square footage yet in the capable and caring hands of our teachers they take on such different looks and feels.
Mrs. Svitak’s walls come alive with numbers and proudly display the Beatitudes. Her classroom is open and welcoming, bright and cheery. She has a confident teaching style which puts the students at each. She takes the mystery of math and makes it a reachable goal. Bells, buzzers, lights and whistles – well, not really – but certainly much more technology than when I was first in a classroom. Computers going in the background, homework being checked using an overhead projector. The afternoon I visited, her students were using index and playing cards to visualize math concepts. It made so much more sense and was easier to grasp than numbers on paper.
A regal American flag hangs high above the classroom reminding Mrs. Donovan’s 3rd graders of their place in the global community while the theme of the year “God Has Chosen Me” is written in large colorful letters on the opposite wall reminding them of their place in God’s community. Her gentle soft spoken manner captivates the children as she presents her lesson big enough for all to see on the overhead projector using a myriad of colors and symbols to keep the children attached and alert. Mrs. Donovan’s teaching style is clever and unique and it’s easy to see the children are learning by leaps and bounds.
