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Roger Evans

"The SE Metro Learning Community provided me the opportunity to discuss ideas and collaborate with other teachers. I was exposed to new information, prints of view, research about how students learn, and different teaching techniques/approaches. I have always been willing to try new things and refine lessons. However, in the two years [I was involved with the Learning Community] my teaching was affected at an accelerated pace. The changes have included the following:

• I have increased parent communication.
• I have shifted from a traditional classroom relying heavily on the textbook to a constructivist classroom which emphasized concepts and encouraged students' questions and points of view.
• I view students as thinkers.
• I consistently reflect on lessons.
• I enlist colleagues knowledge/expertise and share my own.
• I use rubrics and alternative assessments.

Madeline Hunter (1987) stated:

"If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow, go to the cutting edge of your competence, which will mean a temporary loss of security. So, whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you are growing."

Photographs of former student: Roger Evans, 6th Grade Meyer Middle School Science teacher. River Falls, Wisconsin. Congratulations to Roger on being selected for the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Wisconsin Elementary and Middle Level Science Teachers (WEST) group. The award honors teachers who have demonstrated excellence in classroom teaching through their motivational skills, expertise in science knowledge and processes, lesson planning and presentaion skills and extensive involvement in professional activities with colleagues locally and throughout the state. In 2005, Roger retired from teaching. He will be missed in the classroom but we know he will be busy doing amazing things as usual!